barter
/ˈbɑː.(ɹ)tə(ɹ)/US/ˈbɑɹ.tɚ/
barter noun: an exchange of goods or services without the use of money.
Noun
barter (usually uncountable, plural barters)
- An exchange of goods or services without the use of money.
- We had no money so we had to live by barter.
- 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, →OCLC, page 11
- The goods or services used in such an exchange.
- The man used his watch as barter to pay for his tab.
Verb
barter (third-person singular simple present barters, present participle bartering, simple past and past participle bartered)
Proper noun capitalized: Barter
Barter (plural Barters)
- A surname.
barter meaning in Hindi, Tamil, Urdu and Bengali
barter in Hindi
- बार्टर
barter in Tamil
- பண்டமாற்று, பரிவர்த்தனை, பண்டமாற்றுவாணிகம், பண்டமாற்றுச் செய், பண்டகமாற்று
barter in Urdu
- مبادلہ
barter in Bengali
- পণ্য বিনিময় প্রথা
More languagesFewer languages
- barter in Telugu
- వస్తుమార్పిడి vastumārpiḍi
- barter in Malayalam
- മാറ്റക്കച്ചവടം ചെയ്യുക, വിനിമയം ചെയ്യുക, ഒന്നുകൊടുത്തു മറ്റൊന്നു വാങ്ങുക, കൈമാറ്റക്കച്ചവടം ചെയ്യുക
- barter in Kannada
- ತೆರು, ಉರುನಾರು
- barter in Sanskrit
- पण् paṇ, परिवर्तन parivártana
- barter in Tagalog
- tuwayan
- barter in Arabic
- مُقَايَضَة muqāyaḍa, قايض
- barter in Malay
- barter
- barter in Indonesian
- barter, urup, imbal beli
- barter in Persian
- مبادله mobâdele, مبادله کردن mobâdele kardan
- barter in Vietnamese
- đổi
Examples of barter in a sentence
- I convinced him to take it out in barter instead of cash.
- In eras when trade was largely by barter and taxes were usually paid in kind, moneyless transactions could constitute a large percentage of a national economy.
- Angara rely on a participatory mixed economy, applying elements of socialism, capitalism, and an informal barter system.
Synonyms of barter
Antonyms
Forms of barter
| Noun | |
|---|---|
| plural | barters |
| Verb | |
| third-person singular present | barters |
| present participle | bartering |
| past participle | bartered |
| past | bartered |
| Proper noun | |
| plural | Barters |
Origin of barter
Late Middle English, from Old French barater.
Words formed from barter
Words that rhyme with barter
Questions about barter
- What does barter mean?
- Barter means an exchange of goods or services without the use of money.
- What is barter in Hindi?
- Barter in Hindi is बार्टर. See Barter meaning in Hindi.
- What part of speech is barter?
- Barter can be a noun, a verb or a proper noun.
- How do you pronounce barter?
- Barter is pronounced /ˈbɑː.(ɹ)tə(ɹ)/ (UK).
- What is the plural of barter?
- The plural of barter is barters.
Words near barter in the dictionary
Source and license
Adapted from Wiktionary: barter (page history and authors); Barter (page history and authors); barter (Hindi, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); barter (Tamil Wiktionary) (page history and authors); barter (Urdu Wiktionary) (page history and authors); barter (Bengali Wiktionary) (page history and authors); వస్తుమార్పిడి (Telugu) (page history and authors); barter (Olam, E.K. Kurup corpus) (dataset and license); barter (Kannada Wiktionary) (page history and authors); पण् (Sanskrit) (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.
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