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Definitions

American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition

  1. v. To trade goods or services without the exchange of money.
  2. v. To trade (goods or services) without the exchange of money.
  3. n. The act or practice of bartering.
  4. n. Something bartered.
  5. adj. Of, relating to, or being something based on bartering: a barter economy.

Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia

  1. To traffic or trade by exchanging one commodity for another, in distinction from buying and selling for money.
  2. To give (one thing or commodity) for another of equivalent or supposed equivalent value: with a person, for (formerly with) a thing: as, to barter one's jewels for bread.
  3. To exchange, in general.
  4. n. The act of exchanging; specifically, the act or practice of trafficking by exchange of commodities.
  5. n. The thing given in exchange.
  6. n. An arithmetical rule by which the values of different goods are ascertained and compared
  7. n. Synonyms Dealing, trade, traffic, truck, interchange.

Wiktionary

  1. n. an equal exchange
  2. v. exchange goods or services without involving money

GNU Webster's 1913

  1. v. To traffic or trade, by exchanging one commodity for another, in distinction from a sale and purchase, in which money is paid for the commodities transferred; to truck.
  2. v. To trade or exchange in the way of barter; to exchange (frequently for an unworthy consideration); to traffic; to truck; -- sometimes followed by away.
  3. n. The act or practice of trafficking by exchange of commodities; an exchange of goods.
  4. n. The thing given in exchange.

WordNet 3.0

  1. n. an equal exchange
  2. v. exchange goods without involving money

Etymologies

  1. From Old French barater, of uncertain origin (maybe Celtic). (Wiktionary)
  2. Middle English barteren, probably from Old French barater; see barrator. (American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition)

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synonyms (10)

Words with the same meaning

  1. truck
  2. traffic
  1. trade
  2. dealing
  1. exchange
  2. bargain
  1. swap
  2. swop
  1. chop
  2. quid pro quo

hypernyms (3)

Words that are more generic or abstract

  1. interchange
  1. change
  1. exchange

same context (3)

Words that are found in similar contexts

  1. extortion
  1. commerce
  1. bargain

rhymes (15)

Words with the same terminal sound

  1. Carter
  2. Tartar
  3. arter
  1. carter
  2. charter
  3. darter
  1. garter
  2. marter
  3. martyr
  1. nonstarter
  2. sartor
  3. smarter
  1. starter
  2. tartar
  3. tarter

reverse dictionary (45)

Words that contain this word in their definition

  1. trade
  2. barter
  3. sell
  4. excambion
  5. interchange
  6. dicker
  7. merchant
  8. commerce
  9. cope
  1. cost
  2. niffer
  3. chop
  4. swap
  5. permute
  6. countertrade
  7. badger
  8. bargain
  9. bartery
  1. cose
  2. coup
  3. excambium
  4. swap meet
  5. commutation
  6. exchange
  7. trading post
  8. truck
  9. handsel
  1. truckage
  2. rore
  3. permutation
  4. price
  5. scorce
  6. scorse
  7. tommy
  8. trader
  9. traffic
  1. truckman
  2. venal
  3. cambio
  4. change
  5. manilla
  6. put
  7. sale
  8. scourse
  9. trucking

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