Both Uses of
barter
in
Atlas Shrugged
- He thought of all the dark roads, the alleys, the back yards of the country, where the best of the country's men would now exchange their services in jungle barter, in chance jobs, in unrecorded transactions.†
Chpt 2.6 *barter = trade
- The impatient tone, the peremptory movement with which she sat down were a confession of weakness: by the rules of their unwritten language, one did not assume a demanding manner unless one were seeking a favor and had no value-no threat-to barter.†
Chpt 3.4
Definition:
to trade things of value without involving money