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usually uncountable, plural barters
An exchange of goods or services without the use of money. quotations examples
Speculations in trade are not confined to the counter or to the counting-house. Lady Anne's fair hair and white teeth were as much objects of barter as any of the shawls or ribbons displayed in Bond Street. They were to be had in exchange for a suit of diamonds and an opera-box.
1838 (date written), L[etitia] E[lizabeth] L[andon], chapter I, in Lady Anne Granard; or, Keeping up Appearances. […], volume I, London: Henry Colburn, […], published 1842, page 11
The goods or services used in such an exchange. examples
third-person singular simple present barters, present participle bartering, simple past and past participle bartered
(transitive, intransitive) To exchange goods or services without involving money. examples