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# barter

«barter» in Mova's school dictionary: **to swap things or services for other things instead of…** — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples, with 5 sentences of Mova's corpora that use it.

### part of speech

verb (barter, barters, bartered, bartering); noun (barter — uncountable)

### meaning for a pupil

1) To barter means to swap things or services for other things instead of using money. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/B/barter/#m1)

2) Barter is this kind of trading by swapping. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/B/barter/#m2)

### sense in the lessons

In history lessons pupils learn that before money people bartered, for example swapping grain for tools. In everyday life children barter when they swap stickers, cards or snacks. In maths and money lessons barter shows why money is useful. Phrases: barter for, barter with.

### examples

- Long ago, people bartered fish for bread. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/B/barter/#x1)
- I bartered two stickers for one shiny card. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/B/barter/#x2)
- The settlers bartered with local people for furs. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/B/barter/#x3)
- Barter is trading without money. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/B/barter/#x4)
- It is hard to barter if the other person doesn't want what you have. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/B/barter/#x5)
- The traders bartered salt for gold. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/B/barter/#x6)
- If 3 apples are worth 1 orange, you can barter 9 apples for 3 oranges. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/B/barter/#x7)
- Then he rode away upon the horse that was to be sold or bartered for something else. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/B/barter/#x8)

### note

Regular verb: bartered. Barter is like swap or trade; it does not use money. Do not confuse with barber (someone who cuts hair). The problem with barter: both people must want what the other has.

### In the corpora

- [Barter is swapping things without using money, like two football cards for one Pokémon card in the playground.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/money/4-swaps-and-barter-in-the-playground/0/)
- [Barter means swapping goods or help without using money.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/money/4-swaps-and-barter-in-the-playground/4/)
- [Barter only works when each person has what the other wants; this is called a double coincidence of wants.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/money/4-swaps-and-barter-in-the-playground/5/)
- [Long ago people traded by barter — swapping a sack of grain for a pair of shoes.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/world/58-people-and-society/3/)
- [Bartering means swapping goods without using money.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/world/58-people-and-society/12/)

### Trees and pragmatics

[Every meaning and example of «barter» parsed by Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/B/barter/), each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.