barter

Main Entry:
reciprocation [ri-sip-ruh-key-shuhn]
Part of Speech: noun
Definition: retaliation
Synonyms: a tooth for a tooth, an eye for an eye, barter, compensation, correspondence, counteraction, counterattack, counterblow, interchange, repayment, reply, reprisal, requital, retribution, revenge, tit for tat, trade, vengeance
Main Entry: trading
Part of Speech: noun
Definition: business
Synonyms: affairs, bargaining, barter, buying and selling, capital and labor, commerce, commercialism, contracts, deal, dealings, exchange, free enterprise, game, industrialism, industry, manufacturing, market, merchandising, production and distribution, racket, sales, selling, trade, traffic, transaction, undertaking
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Main Entry: bargain
Part of Speech: noun, verb
Related
Adjectives:
bargain, brummagem, catchpenny, cheap, cheap and nasty, claptrap, depreciated, discounting, hand, slimpsy, tatty
Related Words
Main Entry: business
Part of Speech: noun
Related
Adjectives:
capital, employable, labor, overbudget, pink, undercapitalized, unemployable, up
Main Entry: exchange
Part of Speech: noun, verb
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Adjectives:
acting, commercial, for sale, fungible, in the market, interchangeable, marketable, mercantile, retail, staple, subdititious, substituted, trading, vicarious, vice, wholesale
Related Words
Main Entry: sale
Part of Speech: noun
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Adjectives:
emporeutic, emptional, for sale, in the market, marketable, nundinal, on one's hands, pignorate, purchased, salable, unbought, under the hammer, unpurchased, unsalable, vendible
Concept Thesaurus
Concept: Business.
Category: 1. Conceptional volition
Synonyms:
-nouns
business, occupation, employment; pursuit; what one is doing, what one is about; affair, concern, matter, case., matter in hand, irons in the fire; thing to do, agendum, task, work, job, chore [U.S.], errand, commission, mission, charge, care; duty., part, role, cue; province, function, lookout, department, capacity, sphere, orb, field, line; walk of life; beat, round, routine; race, career., office, place, post, chargeship, incumbency, living; situation, berth, employ; service (servitude); engagement; undertaking., vocation, calling, profession, cloth, faculty; industry, art; industrial arts; craft, mystery, handicraft; trade (commerce)., exercise; work (action); avocation; press of business (activity).
-verbs
pass one's time in, employ one's time in, spend one's time in; employ oneself in, employ oneself upon; occupy oneself with, concern oneself with; make it one's business; undertake; enter a profession; betake oneself to, turn one's hand to; have to do with (do)., drive a trade; carry on a trade, do a trade, transact a trade, carry on business, do business, transact business; keep a shop; ply one's task, ply one's trade; labor in one's vocation; pursue the even tenor of one's way; attend to business, attend to one's work., officiate, serve, act; act one's part, play one's part; do duty; serve the office, discharge the office, perform the office, perform the duties, perform the functions of; hold an office, fill an office, fill a place, fill a situation; hold a portfolio., be about, be doing, be engaged in, be employed in, be occupied with, be at work on; have one's hands in, have in hand; have on one's hands, have on one's shoulders; bear the burden; have one's hands full (activity) [more]., be in the hands of, be on the stocks, be on the anvil; pass through one's hands.
-adjectives
businesslike; workaday; professional; official, functional; busy (actively employed); on hand, in hand, in one's hands; afoot; on foot, on the anvil; going on; acting.
-adverbs
in the course of business, all in one's day's work; professionally,
-phrases
"a business with an income at its heels" [Cowper]; amoto quaeramus seria ludo [Horace]; par negotiis neque supra [Tacitus].
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Concept Thesaurus
Concept: [Difference at different times] Change.
Category: 1. SIMPLE CHANGE
Synonyms:
-nouns
change, alteration, mutation, permutation, variation, modification, modulation, inflexion, mood, qualification, innovation, metastasis, deviation, turn, evolution, revolution; diversion; break., transformation, transfiguration; metamorphosis; transmutation; deoxidization; transubstantiation; mutagenesis, transanimation, transmigration, metempsychosis; avatar; alterative., conversion (gradual change); revolution (sudden or radical change); inversion (reversal); displacement; transference., changeableness; tergiversation (change of mind).
-verbs
change, alter, vary, wax and wane; modulate, diversify, qualify, tamper with; turn, shift, veer, tack, chop, shuffle, swerve, warp, deviate, turn aside, evert, intervert; pass to, take a turn, turn the corner, resume., work a change, modify, vamp, superinduce; transform, transfigure, transmute, transmogrify, transume; metamorphose, ring the changes., innovate, introduce new blood, shuffle the cards; give a turn to, give a color to; influence, turn the scale; shift the scene, turn over a new leaf., recast; reverse; disturb; convert into.
-adjectives
changed; newfangled; changeable; transitional; modifiable; alterative.
-adverbs
mutatis mutandis ["The necessary changes having been made" (Latin)].
-phrases
"a change came o'er the spirit of my dream" [Byron]; nous avons changé tout cela [Molière. "We have changed all that" (French)]; tempora mutantur nos et mutamur in illis ["The times are changed even as we are changed in them" (Latin)]; non sum qualis eram [Horace. "I am not as I used to be" (Latin)]; casaque tourner; corpora lente augescent cito extinguuntur [Tacitus. "Bodies grow slowly but are snuffed out quickly" (Latin)]; in statu quo ante bellum ["In the state in which it was before the war" (Latin)]; "still ending and beginning still" [Cowper]; vox audita perit littera scripta manet ["The voice heard vanishes, the letter written
Antonyms: permanence
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Concept Thesaurus
Concept: [Double or mutual change] Interchange.
Category: 1. SIMPLE CHANGE
Synonyms:
-nouns
interchange, exchange; commutation, permutation, intermutation; reciprocation, transposition, shuffling; alternation, reciprocity; castling [at chess]; hocus-pocus., interchangeableness, interchangeability., barter; tit for tat (retaliation); cross fire, battledore and shuttlecock; quid pro quo.
-verbs
interchange, exchange, counterchange; bandy, transpose, shuffle, change bands, swap, permute, reciprocate, commute; give and take, return the compliment; play at puss in the corner, play at battledore and shuttlecock; retaliate; requite.
-adjectives
interchanged; reciprocal, mutual, commutative, interchangeable, intercurrent., substituted; vicarious, subdititious.
-adverbs
in exchange, vice versa, mutatis mutandis, backwards and forwards, by turns, turn and turn about; each in his turn, everyone in his turn., instead; in place of, in lieu of, in the stead of, in the room of; faute de mieux.
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