Definitions for barter

barter bar·ter

Spelling: [bahr-ter]
IPA: /ˈbɑr tər/

Barter is a 6 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 8 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 9 points.

You can make 97 anagrams from letters in barter (aberrt).

Definitions for barter

noun

  1. the act or practice of bartering.
  2. items or an item for bartering:

verb (used with object)

  1. to exchange in trade, as one commodity for another; trade.
  2. to bargain away unwisely or dishonorably (usually followed by away):

verb (used without object)

  1. to trade by exchange of commodities rather than by the use of money.

Origin of barter

1400-50; late Middle English, apparently Anglo-French, Old French bareter, barater (see barrator), with shift of sense

Examples for barter

barter returned to the porcelain slab banked with the lights and the keys.

Let us not barter them for the poor comforts of this brief life.

Most of its international trade was essentially in barter, particularly with its Eastern European satellites.

In early times the father might sell his daughters and barter his sisters.

An unnamed Iranian official told the news service that the barter would include Russian weapons.

It looked like paltering and peddling, like sale and barter.

They hit inter th' highway from barter, that's what they done.

When will he give up––and what will his driver do when barter relinquishes control?

In the right institutional setting, the human propensity to "truck, barter, and exchange" can enhance the welfare of all.

Now came the Indians I had seen at the lake to barter for some flour and pork.

Word Value for barter
Scrable

8

Words with friends

9

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