Thesaurus results for BARTER

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noun

as in exchange

a giving or taking of one thing of value in return for another according to our barter agreement, I do all of the mechanical work on my neighbor's car, and he does all of my snow removal

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verb

as in to trade

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Noun

Avoid changing the color of a rabbit or a chicken There are several stipulations in Massachusetts law about baby chicks, ducklings, rabbits and other fowl in terms of their sale, barter or gifting. —

Ashlyn Messier, Fox News, 21 Nov. 2024 To Google’s accountants, the barter still represents a gigantic overhead expense. —

IEEE Spectrum, 31 May 2011

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But states such as India and Egypt rejected the legitimacy of the UN embargo, and Beijing was able to barter (often on disadvantageous terms) with countries such as Indonesia and Sri Lanka in order to avoid isolation. —

Timothy Nunan, Foreign Affairs, 10 Oct. 2017 Sydney Sweeney opened up about invasive photographers stalking her home, recalling the time paparazzi tried to barter bikini photos with her family. —

Jessica Wang, EW.com, 4 Oct. 2024 See all Example Sentences for barter

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Noun

In other words, Bibi has paused long enough now to gain leverage - with American help - for success on a bigger scale than a hostage exchange.

— Melik Kaylan, Forbes, 20 Jan. 2025
While there are many, many models of potential dark matter candidates, many interact with regular particles through exchanges involving the Higgs boson — a fundamental particle that interacts with almost all other particles and, through those interactions, imbues those particles with mass.

— Paul Sutter, Space.com, 20 Jan. 2025