barter

The nations have also experimented with direct barter.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 24, 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

These findings suggest that the pre-Inca Chincha Kingdom may have built Monte Sierpe for organized barter and trading, and that the Inca later repurposed it for accounting and tribute collection.

From Science Daily ● Nov. 10, 2025

Menendez said the position gave him access to wall phones, and used the position to help him barter or gain favors.

From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 22, 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

Luis said he then buys dollar-denominated stablecoins on overseas crypto markets, which he barters for pesos on peer-to-peer exchanges in Argentina -- all under the radar of Argentine tax and financial authorities.

From Reuters ● Jul. 25, 2023

As the creators and showrunners of HBO’s “Westworld,” based on the original film and screenplay by Michael Crichton, they were no strangers to sci-fi that barters in slippery notions of reality.

From New York Times ● Oct. 28, 2022

“Three Thousand Years of Longing” is a cerebral film that barters in riddles.

From Seattle Times ● Aug. 23, 2022

“No one barters its destiny for corn cake,” Kim wrote.

From Washington Post ● Aug. 19, 2022

Life in the Fen was apparently a series of barters.

From "Gathering Blue" by Lois Lowry

Allen bartered the show for free to TV stations in exchange for a split of the revenues from selling commercials to advertisers.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 8, 2026

In a time where edgy influencers like Clavicular and HSTikkyTokky are reposted, shared, and platformed for their ability to provoke, morality is bartered for popularity.

From Slate ● May 12, 2026

But in Wisconsin, no part of a wild sturgeon can be bought, sold or bartered for.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Feb. 20, 2026

Scholars suggest that some of these human remains were bartered items or gifts, but others may have been taken away without the consent of their owners.

From BBC ● Nov. 18, 2024

Johnny’s mother, Maimie, bartered the eggs for other goods, canned the tomatoes, made wine from the loganber-ries.

From "The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics" by Daniel James Brown

There’s also a bartering and swap group where folks negotiate clever exchanges: “I have an unused air fryer. You have an unused desk chair. Want to swap?”

From Salon ● Aug. 19, 2025

"I think there was a lot of bartering," captain McIntosh says, "trying to get good deals, where we'd get breakfast and tea included."

From BBC ● Feb. 27, 2025

In place of socializing, we’re using a parent community as a bartering platform.

From Slate ● Jan. 11, 2025

Food comes from bartering with neighbors, or outlets like 99 Cents Only.

From Los Angeles Times ● Apr. 9, 2024

Everything was gone, used over months of bartering for cans of beans and bags of rice.

From "The Dead and the Gone" by Susan Beth Pfeffer