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barter

[bahr-ter] / ˈbɑr tər /
VERB
trade goods or services
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Instead, they arranged to trade services through a barter system in which state-backed Chinese companies in Iran build infrastructure there as compensation for oil.

From The Wall Street Journal • Apr. 7, 2026

Plus, it creates new headaches for companies, many of which would likely jockey for workarounds as the administration has shown a willingness to barter tariffs for other commitments, he adds.

From Barron's • Feb. 11, 2026

The victim had left a trading card show in Orange County that day and visited the Olympic Boulevard shop looking to barter, he told The Times.

From Los Angeles Times • Jan. 23, 2026

Together, the data support a new interpretation of Monte Sierpe as an Indigenous center for barter and exchange that may have evolved into an accounting system under Inca rule.

From Science Daily • Nov. 10, 2025

Shadow was about to take one, automatically—he did not smoke, but a cigarette makes good barter material—when he realized that he was no longer inside.

From "American Gods" by Neil Gaiman




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