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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,
p. 106.9

barter = trade (things of value without involving money)
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,
p. 133.7
...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.
p. 133.7
...they usually bartered with a promise of something to eat tomorrow or the next day in exchange for something to eat today,
p. 133.8 *

bartered = traded (things of value without involving money)
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, and 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.†
p. 133.9

bartering = trading
...she sat beside him on the car seat they had bartered for and used now as a sofa,
p. 196.3

bartered = traded (things of value without involving money)

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