v., -tered, -ter·ing, -ters. v.intr.
To trade goods or services without the exchange of money.
v.tr.
To trade (goods or services) without the exchange of money.
n.
- The act or practice of bartering.
- Something bartered.
Of, relating to, or being something based on bartering: a barter economy.
[Middle English barteren, probably from Old French barater. See barrator.]
barterer bar'ter·er n.
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