Definitions

from The Century Dictionary.

  • noun One who barters or traffics by exchanging commodities.

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

  • noun One who barters.

from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.

  • noun one who barters: one who trades goods for other goods without involving money

from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.

  • noun a trader who exchanges goods and not money

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Examples

  • A simple barterer in household goods and services.

    The Lives of Felix Gunderson Sugu Althomsons 2010

  • She's got a post up on her blog that attempts to turn bartergate back on Reid, by pointing to a story about a land deal involving Reid and alleging that he's a "first class barterer."

    Have Sue Lowden's Senate hopes flown the coop? 2010

  • If you're just an occasional, an accidental barterer versus someone who does it all the time.

    CNN Transcript Oct 31, 2009 2009

  • Time enough to quiz this brusque barterer before they found themselves in too deep with someone who might turn out to be all talk and no substance.

    Into the Thinking Kingdoms Foster, Alan Dean, 1946- 1999

  • Time enough to quiz this brusque barterer before they found themselves in too deep with someone who might turn out to be all talk and no substance.

    Into the Thinking Kingdoms Foster, Alan Dean, 1946- 1999

  • That time the shoe barterer laughed so hard it churned up mucus into his mouth, which he spit into a crack in the sidewalk that already had its share of gum and cigarette buds.

    Corpus of a Siam Mosquito

  • When his mind was able to register the fact that they were seated next to him, the haze made the man and his woman, the shoe barterer, the sky crier, and all

    Corpus of a Siam Mosquito

  • The barterer and the murderer; let others follow where they lead.

    My Lady of the Chinese Courtyard Elizabeth Cooper 1911

  • Examples are Armour for armourer, Barter for barterer, Buckler for bucklerer, but also for buckle-maker, Callender for calenderer, one who calendered, i.e. pressed, cloth

    The Romance of Names Ernest Weekley 1909

  • He dwindles now to the mere barterer and so -- save for a few chance glimpses -- slips out of sight, for his brave days as Imperial Scout are done.

    Pioneers of the Old Southwest: a chronicle of the dark and bloody ground Constance Lindsay Skinner 1908

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