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barter

/bahr-ter/US // ˈbɑr tər //UK // (ˈbɑːtə) //

易货贸易,易货交易,易货,易物

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Definitions

v.无主动词 verb
  1. 1
    • : to trade by exchange of commodities rather than by the use of money.
v.有主动词 verb
  1. 1
    • : to exchange in trade, as one commodity for another; trade.
    • : to bargain away unwisely or dishonorably: bartering away his pride for material gain.
n.名词 noun
  1. 1
    • : the act or practice of bartering.
    • : items or an item for bartering: We arrived with new barter for the villagers.

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Examples

  • A Dentsu rep wasn’t able to determine if that holding company still owns a barter shop.

  • Evergreen, meanwhile, was started in 2008 by Gordon Zellner, who cobbled together a host of veterans from the other barter firms.

  • Growth of the independentsAfter Icon, which only recently became independent, Active International and Evergreen Trading are the largest barter shops not owned by a holding company.

  • Rather than junking it, the marketer approaches the barter agency, which takes that inventory off the retailer’s hands and resells it elsewhere.

  • Trade and barter of zines, recordings, fan fiction, art and photographs were also common ways for “circles” of fans to bond.

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

  • It could also gather intelligence to be traded in that shadowy barter economy of espionage.

  • So there has been some real loss of "truck barter and exchange" that is simply lost, not delayed.

  • But this is really cumbersome, which is why there's no such thing as an all-barter economy.

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

  • A factor is employed to sell goods, and not to barter or exchange them, and if he should do this his principal could recover them.

  • On that occasion her excellent business judgment and her powers of barter had attracted him strongly.

  • Barter was common, and there must have been facilities for the distribution of those goods which had their origin in Gaul.

  • He caught my child up like a common street wench, a thing of sale and barter.

  • It was doubtless precisely because she distained certain forms of feminine barter that she got so much for nothing.