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Definitions for Barter
ˈbɑr tərbarter

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Princeton's WordNet

  1. barter, swap, swop, tradeverb

    an equal exchange

    "we had no money so we had to live by barter"

  2. barterverb

    exchange goods without involving money

Wiktionary

  1. barternoun

    an equal exchange

    We had no money so we had to live by barter.

  2. barterverb

    exchange goods or services without involving money

  3. Etymology: From barater, of uncertain origin (maybe Celtic).

Samuel Johnson's Dictionary

  1. Barternoun

    The act or practice of trafficking by exchange of commodities; sometimes the thing given in exchange.

    Etymology: from the verb.

    From England they may be furnished with such things as they may want, and, in exchange or barter, send other things, with which they may abound. Francis Bacon, Advice to Villiers.

    He who corrupteth English with foreign words, is as wise as ladies that change plate for china; for which, I think, the laudable traffick of old cloaths is much the fairest barter. Henry Felton, on the Classicks.

  2. To Barterverb

    For him was I exchang’d and ransom’d;
    But with a baser man of arms by far,
    Once, in contempt, they would have barter’d me. William Shakespeare, Henry VI. p. i.

    Then as thou wilt dispose the rest,
    To those who, at the market rate,
    Can barter honour for estate. Matthew Prior.

    I see nothing left us, but to truck and barter our goods, like the wild Indians, with each other. Jonathan Swift.

    If they will barter away their time, methinks they should at least have some ease in exchange. Decay of Piety.

    He also bartered away plums that would have rotted in a week, for nuts that would last good for his eating a whole year. John Locke.

  3. To BARTERverb

    To traffick by exchanging one commodity for another, in opposition to purchasing with money.

    Etymology: baratter, Fr. to trick in traffick; from barat, craft, fraud.

    As if they scorn’d to trade and barter,
    By giving or by taking quarter. Hudibras, p. iii. c. i.

    A man has not every thing growing upon his soil, and therefore is willing to barter with his neighbour. Collier.

Wikipedia

  1. Barter

    In trade, barter (derived from baretor) is a system of exchange in which participants in a transaction directly exchange goods or services for other goods or services without using a medium of exchange, such as money. Economists distinguish barter from gift economies in many ways; barter, for example, features immediate reciprocal exchange, not one delayed in time. Barter usually takes place on a bilateral basis, but may be multilateral (if it is mediated through a trade exchange). In most developed countries, barter usually exists parallel to monetary systems only to a very limited extent. Market actors use barter as a replacement for money as the method of exchange in times of monetary crisis, such as when currency becomes unstable (such as hyperinflation or a deflationary spiral) or simply unavailable for conducting commerce. No ethnographic studies have shown that any present or past society has used barter without any other medium of exchange or measurement, and anthropologists have found no evidence that money emerged from barter. They instead found that gift-giving (credit extended on a personal basis with an inter-personal balance maintained over the long term) was the most usual means of exchange of goods and services. Nevertheless, economists since the times of Adam Smith (1723–1790) often inaccurately imagined pre-modern societies as examples to use the inefficiency of barter to explain the emergence of money, of "the" economy, and hence of the discipline of economics itself.

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  1. barter

    Barter is a system of exchange in which goods or services are traded directly for other goods or services without using a medium of exchange, such as money. It often takes place on a bilateral basis, but may be multilateral, and usually exists parallel to monetary systems in most developed countries, though to a very limited extent.

Webster Dictionary

  1. Barterverb

    to traffic or trade, by exchanging one commodity for another, in distinction from a sale and purchase, in which money is paid for the commodities transferred; to truck

  2. Barterverb

    to trade or exchange in the way of barter; to exchange (frequently for an unworthy consideration); to traffic; to truck; -- sometimes followed by away; as, to barter away goods or honor

  3. Barternoun

    the act or practice of trafficking by exchange of commodities; an exchange of goods

  4. Barternoun

    the thing given in exchange

Wikidata

  1. Barter

    Barter is a system of exchange by which goods or services are directly exchanged for other goods or services without using a medium of exchange, such as money. It is distinguishable from gift economies in that the reciprocal exchange is immediate and not delayed in time. It is usually bilateral, but may be multilateral and usually exists parallel to monetary systems in most developed countries, though to a very limited extent. Barter usually replaces money as the method of exchange in times of monetary crisis, such as when the currency may be either unstable or simply unavailable for conducting commerce. David Graeber argues that the inefficiencies of barter in archaic society has been used by economists since Adam Smith to explain the emergence of money, the economy, and hence the discipline of economics itself. "Economists of the contemporary orthodoxy... propose an evolutionary development of economies which places barter, as a 'natural' human characteristic, at the most primitive stage, to be superseded by monetary exchange as soon as people become aware of the latter's greater efficiency." However, extensive investigation by anthropologists like Graeber has since then established that "No example of a barter economy, pure and simple, has ever been described, let alone the emergence from it of money; all available ethnography suggests that there never has been such a thing. But there are economies today which are nevertheless dominated by barter."

Chambers 20th Century Dictionary

  1. Barter

    bär′tėr, v.t. to give one thing in exchange for another (with for, away).—v.i. to traffic by exchanging.—n. traffic by exchange of commodities.—n. Bar′terer, one who barters. [Prob. from O. Fr. barat.]

Surnames Frequency by Census Records

  1. BARTER

    According to the U.S. Census Bureau, Barter is ranked #13203 in terms of the most common surnames in America.

    The Barter surname appeared 2,315 times in the 2010 census and if you were to sample 100,000 people in the United States, approximately 1 would have the surname Barter.

    88% or 2,039 total occurrences were White.
    6.4% or 149 total occurrences were Black.
    3.7% or 86 total occurrences were of Hispanic origin.
    1% or 25 total occurrences were of two or more races.
    0.3% or 9 total occurrences were American Indian or Alaskan Native.
    0.3% or 7 total occurrences were Asian.

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Numerology

  1. Chaldean Numerology

    The numerical value of Barter in Chaldean Numerology is: 7

  2. Pythagorean Numerology

    The numerical value of Barter in Pythagorean Numerology is: 1

Examples of Barter in a Sentence

  1. Peter Harrell:

    Policymakers will be concerned that sanctioning an oil for food barter would play into a...narrative that U.S. sanctions are causing humanitarian challenges in Venezuela.

  2. Mark Dubowitz:

    The removal of Iran's central bank from Swift along with other Iranian banks implicated in terrorism, nuclear and missile proliferation, as well human rights abuses will cut the regime's access to the global financial system, this will reduce their options to barter trade or sanctions busting. Treasury however has left open humanitarian channels that the regime should use to deliver food, medicine and other goods to the Iranian people.

  3. Edmund Burke:

    All government -- indeed, every human benefit and enjoyment, every virtue and every prudent act -- is founded on compromise and barter.

  4. Jane Barter:

    No one knows that at home, in the middle of the night when my family is sleeping, that I ’m up and I ’m dry heaving and I ’m crying and I ’m begging and I ’m just online investigating this whole thing Jane Barter.

  5. Vladimir Bratusin:

    We tried barter in the 1990s and it had a very bad influence on the economy, it depends who is offering you barter. If it's a good client who has something with value on the market, then it's O.K., but if not, we're not interested.

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