barter

Example Sentences

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To get around Western banks, Venezuela started accepting payments in Russian rubles, bartered goods or cryptocurrency.

From Seattle Times

If you have neighbors with skills such as carpentry, you could barter with them for additional savings.

From Seattle Times

With grant funding through Wing Luke, the collective trekked the far-flung shores where trading ships must have docked, bartering in currencies and cargoes, with many tongues speaking human stories.

From Seattle Times

And although Simard cannot hear their conversation, she knows the trees are in communion with the fungi beneath her feet — bartering carbon for water and nutrients in a raucous exchange older than the forests themselves.

From Washington Post

Many reindeer herders admire Feodoroff as an entrepreneurial maverick, a bridge between the modern capitalist society that’s endangered their way of life and the non-hierarchical Sámis, often more experienced in bartering than buyouts.

From Washington Post