0 past simple and past participle of barter
1 to exchange goods for other things rather than for money:
He bartered his stamp collection for her comics.
We spent a whole hour bartering with stallholders for souvenirs.
Beads were also bartered for agricultural surpluses by both missionaries and merchants.
The phrase a market-place used to refer simply to a small area, usually part of a town, where local goods were bought or bartered.
Men also acted as traders with outsiders when excess agricultural goods were to be bartered or sold.
This constituted a departure from established methods of reproducing the family unit during times of duress, as kin became actual commodities that were bartered (not loaned) away.
Desert salt, cowrie shells and other scarce commodities were bartered for captives.
Victims are priced, sold or bartered, and stripped of their dignity.
It must not be bartered for a mirage of commercial immediacy.
They took me round their districts where they bought and sold and bartered if necessary.
