Dictionary Entry
barter
barter is a 6-letter English word with 6 senses as intransitive verb, transitive verb, noun, and verb in the JumbleFix dictionary. One common meaning is: 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. Face value is 8 in Scrabble and 9 in Words With Friends. Use the entries below when you need a playable sense, a nearby word, or another arrangement of the same letters.
6 letters · Scrabble 8 · Words With Friends 9 · 6 senses
Definitions
- 1intransitive verb
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.
- 2transitive verb
To trade or exchange in the way of barter; to exchange (frequently for an unworthy consideration); to traffic; to truck; -- sometimes followed by away; as, to barter away goods or honor.
- 3noun
The act or practice of trafficking by exchange of commodities; an exchange of goods.
- 4noun
The thing given in exchange.
- 5noun
an equal exchange
"we had no money so we had to live by barter"
- 6verb
exchange goods without involving money
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