Synonyms for barter
ˈbɑr tərbarter

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1. barterverb

   Synonyms:
   quid pro quo, swop, swap, trade

2. barternoun

   an equal exchange

   We had no money so we had to live by barter.

   Synonyms:
   swap, swop, trade, quid pro quo

English Synonyms and AntonymsRate these synonyms:4.0 / 1 vote

1. barter

   A business is what one follows regularly; an occupation is what he happens at any time to be engaged in; trout-fishing may be one's occupation for a time, as a relief from business; business is ordinarily for profit, while the occupation may be a matter of learning, philanthropy, or religion. A profession implies scholarship; as, the learned professions. Pursuit is an occupation which one follows with ardor. An avocation is what calls one away from other work; a vocation or calling, that to which one is called by some special fitness or sense of duty; thus, we speak of the gospel ministry as a vocation or calling, rather than a business. Trade or trading is, in general, the exchanging of one thing for another; in the special sense, a trade is an occupation involving manual training and skilled labor; as, the ancient Jews held that every boy should learn a trade. A transaction is a single action, whether in business, diplomacy, or otherwise; affair has a similar, but lighter meaning; as, this little affair; an important transaction. The plural affairs has a distinctive meaning, including all activities where men deal with one another on any considerable scale; as, a man of affairs. A job is a piece of work viewed as a single undertaking, and ordinarily paid for as such. Trade and commerce may be used as equivalents, but trade is capable of a more limited application; we speak of the trade of a village, the commerce of a nation. Barter is the direct exchange of commodities; business, trade, and commerce are chiefly transacted by means of money, bills of exchange, etc. Business, occupation, etc., may be what one does independently; employment may be in the service of another. Work is any application of energy to secure a result, or the result thus secured; thus, we speak of the work of God. Art in the industrial sense is a system of rules and accepted methods for the accomplishment of some practical result; as, the art of printing; collectively, the arts. A craft is some occupation requiring technical skill or manual dexterity, or the persons, collectively, engaged in its exercise; as, the weaver's craft.

   Synonyms:
   affair, art, avocation, business, calling, commerce, concern, craft, duty, employment, handicraft, job, occupation, profession, trade, trading, traffic, transaction, vocation, work

   Preposition:
   The business of a druggist; in business with his father; doing business for his father; have you business with me? business in New York; business about, concerning, or in regard to certain property.

Princeton's WordNetRate these synonyms:2.8 / 11 votes

1. barter, swap, swop, tradeverb

   an equal exchange

   "we had no money so we had to live by barter"

   Synonyms:
   business deal, deal, swop, patronage, trade wind, trade, craft, swap

2. barterverb

   exchange goods without involving money

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1. • Exchange

Dictionary of English SynonymesRate these synonyms:0.0 / 0 votes

1. barterverb

   Synonyms:
   make exchanges, traffic by exchanges

2. barterverb

   Synonyms:
   give in exchange, barter away

3. barternoun

   Synonyms:
   exchange, traffic by exchange

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1. barternoun

   Synonyms:
   traffic, exchange, trade, business

2. barterverb

   Synonyms:
   traffic, trade, exchange

PPDB, the paraphrase databaseRate these paraphrases:0.0 / 0 votes

1. List of paraphrases for "barter":

   barter-exchange, bartering, swap

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How to use barter in a sentence?

1. Vladimir Bratusin:

   We tried barter in the 1990s and it had a very bad influence on the economy, it depends who is offering you barter. If it's a good client who has something with value on the market, then it's O.K., but if not, we're not interested.

2. Peter Harrell:

   Policymakers will be concerned that sanctioning an oil for food barter would play into a...narrative that U.S. sanctions are causing humanitarian challenges in Venezuela.

3. Mark Dubowitz:

   The removal of Iran's central bank from Swift along with other Iranian banks implicated in terrorism, nuclear and missile proliferation, as well human rights abuses will cut the regime's access to the global financial system, this will reduce their options to barter trade or sanctions busting. Treasury however has left open humanitarian channels that the regime should use to deliver food, medicine and other goods to the Iranian people.

4. Essar Steel:

   This is in conformity with export-import policy of the Government of India. It is not a barter deal.

5. Edmund Burke:

   All government -- indeed, every human benefit and enjoyment, every virtue and every prudent act -- is founded on compromise and barter.