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to trade things of value without involving money- The IRS is investigating a barter exchange that we belonged to.
- 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,Moshin Hamid -- Exit West
- ...they usually bartered with a promise of something to eat tomorrow or the next day in exchange for something to eat today,Moshin Hamid -- Exit West
- ...she sat beside him on the car seat they had bartered for and used now as a sofa,Moshin Hamid -- Exit West
- ...a promise of something to eat tomorrow or the next day in exchange for something to eat today, a bartering not so much of different goods, exactly, but of time.Moshin Hamid -- Exit West
- The daily supplies at each of these were exhausted within hours, sometimes within minutes, and the only option then was to barter with one's neighbors or kin or acquaintances,Moshin Hamid -- Exit West
- ...since most people had little to barter with, they usually bartered with a promise of something to eat tomorrow or the next day in exchange for something to eat today, a bartering not so much of different goods, exactly, but of time.Moshin Hamid -- Exit West
- They would not barter them for any earthly pleasure.C.S. Lewis -- The Screwtape Letters
- She had sewn money and jewelry into the lining of her dress, enough, she thought, to barter rides all the way.Amy Tan -- The Joy Luck Club
- Bella, if you compare the level of commitment between a marital union as opposed to bartering your soul in exchange for an eternity as a vampire...Stephenie Meyer -- New Moon
- It can be bought, and sold, and bartered away.Oscar Wilde -- The Picture of Dorian Gray
- This isn't something I can barter: it's something I have to do.Ally Condie -- Matched
- In this poor stuffed crow, with its pathetic bartering, and its neat buttons, nothing of the owner had been left.Thomas Wolfe -- Look Homeward, Angel
- Members of the council would scandalously barter for votes.Alexander Hamilton, James Madison, & John Jay -- The Federalist Papers — Modern English Edition 2
- Survival is a continuous negotiation, as you have to barter covertly for every service the government pretends to provide, but actually doesn't.Barbara Kingsolver -- The Poisonwood Bible
- Yeah, yeah, I know what they call someone who barters her body in exchange for something she wants.Ellen Hopkins -- Identical
- He was the inventor of the plough and a system of barter; he is worshiped by the Chinese peasant as the "prince of cereals."Joseph Campbell -- The Hero With a Thousand Faces
- And she's trying to barter for our flowers!Margaret Peterson Haddix -- Uprising
- Bartering was the only way to get the iron.Henry H. Neff -- The Maelstrom
- Politics is a bartering game.J.D. Robb -- Naked in Death
barter = trade (things of value without involving money)
bartered = traded (things of value without involving money)
bartered = traded (things of value without involving money)
bartering = trading (things of value without involving money)
barter = trade (things of value without involving money)
barter = trade (things of value without involving money)
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