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bartering

bartering is the present participle and gerund of barter.

Meaning of barter

Verb

barter (third-person singular simple present barters, present participle bartering, simple past and past participle bartered)

  1. (ambitransitive) To exchange goods or services without involving money.
    • She bartered a bonsai for one of the rare books in my library.

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Noun

bartering (plural barterings)

  1. barter
    • Ralph Walker, a white small landowner, remembered farmers swapping chickens or hogs for wheat in the 1930s. Many others described similar barterings of vegetables, fish, wild berries, fruit, and labor among members of extended families […]2006, Mark Schultz, The Rural Face of White Supremacy: Beyond Jim Crow, page 27

Forms of bartering

pluralbarterings

Questions about bartering

What does bartering mean?
Bartering means barter.
What is bartering the present participle and gerund of?
Bartering is the present participle and gerund of barter.
What part of speech is bartering?
Bartering is a noun.
What is the plural of bartering?
The plural of bartering is barterings.

Words near bartering in the dictionary

  1. barter
  2. barterable
  3. bartered
  4. barterer
  5. barterers
  6. bartering
  7. barterings
  8. barters
  9. bartery
  10. barth
  11. Barth syndrome

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