verb
definition
To exchange goods or services without involving money.
example
She bartered a bonsai for one of the rare books in my library.
noun
definition
Barter
Examples of bartering in a Sentence
Dingiswayo also encouraged trade and opened relations with the Portuguese at Delagoa Bay, bartering ivory and oxen for brass and beads.
In Barth's time American merchants were established on the Niger, bartering goods in exchange for slaves.
Not much for bartering and competing for an item in an auction environment?
This type of bartering of knowledge is quite beneficial to homeschooled students, particularly high school aged students who often need more specialized topics.
Use a bartering system for your older child as a way to reward positive behaviors.
Favorpals bartering system is a non-monetary system of exchange, where members can swap their services or items with other members without the use of money.
Whether a friend creates your page, you conduct some bartering or you design your page with an easy-to-use program, simple research may be all you need.
Edmundo's Godfather, fortunately, had loans outstanding in the British Army, and so a bit of bartering was negotiated.
When you're low on cash, bartering can be a great way to get the goods or services you need.
Before paper money was commonplace, bartering was crucial to a family's survival.
We are currently implementing a rating system for members to rate their favor exchange experience with other members, and in this way, the community will quickly self-regulate, weeding out those who abuse our bartering system.
She closed her eyes, telling herself she'd survive this and figure out how to get the hell out of there, even if it meant bartering with the monsters on her cell block.
Today, bartering encompasses a wide range of activities.
Craigslist is also becoming a popular resource for people interested in bartering, with listings offering to trade everything from accounting services to cake decorating.
If you're interested in bartering as a way to escape the current economic recession, see the Real Simple article How to Barter Anything for tips on how to get started.
The French adventurers, bent on finding either a "North-west passage" or some land route to the Pacific (which they believed to be no farther west than the Mississippi), naturally went west by the water routes of Wisconsin; as a fine field for their bartering and trading with water-courses by which they could convey their pelts and skins back to Montreal, the region attracted the coureurs de bois and fur traders; and it seemed promising also to the zealous French Catholic missionaries.
They like the gossiping and bartering at the rural markets and in the larger fairs, which are sometimes held in strikingly picturesque localities.
Already, as may be seen by his letters to the Directory, he had laid his plans for the bartering away of the Queen of the Adriatic to Austria; and throughout the lengthy negotiations of the summer and early autumn of 1797 which he conducted with little interference from Paris, he adhered to his plan of gaining the fleet and the Ionian Isles; while the house of Habsburg was to acquire the city itself, together with all the mainland territories of the Republic as far west as the River Adige.
After such preliminary explorations, the French made permanent settlements, which had their origin in the missions of the Jesuits and the bartering posts of the French traders.