Sample Sentences for
barter
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    They would have to be willing to beg, barter, collude, and if necessary, resort to chicanery.  (source)
    barter = trade
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    Can you barter and handle yourself in the market?  (source)
    barter = trade (things of value)
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    The camp was in some ways like a trading post in an old-time gold rush, and much was for sale or barter, from sweaters to mobile phones to antibiotics to, quietly, sex and drugs,  (source)
    barter = trade (things of value without involving money)
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    All we had left to barter were the last of my father's suits.†  (source)
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    Jake bartered legal fees for plumbing work and landscaping and building supplies.  (source)
    bartered = traded
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    —as if my mother were some ancient peasant tribeswoman arriving from the tundra with an armful of raw yak meat and some buttons for bartering, trying to get something from Amy that wasn't on offer.  (source)
    bartering = trading
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    The way she uses these acts as currency, with which she barters for loyalty and allegiance.  (source)
    barters = trades
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    What would you be willing to barter instead?†  (source)
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    They were met by mortar and machine-gun fire from straight ahead in the bartered palm trees.†  (source)
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    This can be paid in paper notes, tetrarch coins, or the bartering equivalent.†  (source)
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    Yeah, yeah, I know what they call someone who barters her body in exchange for something she wants.†  (source)
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    The hotel armories take red gold, or they work on a barter system.†  (source)
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    They bartered ciuchy, second-hand clothes, with my companions in exchange for food.†  (source)
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