All 3 Uses
barter
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Nectar in a Sieve
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- They may live in our midst but I can never accept them, for they lay their hands upon us and we are all turned from tilling to barter, and hoard our silver since we cannot spend it, and see our children go without the food that their children gorge, and it is only in the hope that one day things will be as they were that we have done these things.†
Chpt 4barter = trade
- At last no option but to draw upon my secret hoard: a small stock of rice, ten ollocks in all, shielded from every temptation to sell or barter, kept even when the need to hold our land had squeezed us dry of everything else.†
Chpt 14 *
- What we had saved had been taken from us, there was nothing more ....nothing left to sell; neither youth nor strength left to barter.†
Chpt 26
Definitions:
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(1)
(barter) to trade things of value without involving money
- (2) (meaning too rare to warrant focus)