Both Uses of
barter
in
David Copperfield
- I heard that one boy, who was a coal-merchant's son, came as a set-off against the coal-bill, and was called, on that account, 'Exchange or Barter' — a name selected from the arithmetic book as expressing this arrangement.†
Chpt 4-6 *
- You never can know what it was to be devoted to you, with those old associations; to find that anyone could be so hard as to suppose that the truth of my heart was bartered away, and to be surrounded by appearances confirming that belief.†
Chpt 43-45
Definition:
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(barter) to trade things of value without involving money