barter for

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People could also barter for health services with seedlings or manure, to be used for forest restoration and farming.

From Salon • Nov. 1, 2024

To a needy man, Brigid gave her father’s jeweled sword to barter for food.

From Seattle Times • Feb. 1, 2023

Some barter for medicine on social media or use herbal remedies instead as preventable diseases such as scabies spread due to a lack of adequate treatment.

From Reuters • Aug. 12, 2021

One day, he tried to steal coal from a railroad car to barter for a few scraps of food.

From Los Angeles Times • Jan. 30, 2018

Uncle Kufa and the other men traveled to a trading post to barter for tea, sugar, salt, cloth, and matches.

From "A Girl Named Disaster" by Nancy Farmer