Word Meanings - BARTER - Book Publishers vocabulary database

To traffic or trade, by exchanging one commodity for another, in distinction from a sale and purchase, in which money is paid for the commodities transferred; to truck. (more info) fr. Gr. to do, deal , use practices or tricks, or perh.

Possible synonyms: (Same meaning words of BARTER)

• Commerce
• Trade
• traffic
• merchandize
• barter
• exchange
• business
• communication
• dealing
• intercourse
• Commute
• Alter
• mitigate
• substitute
• compensate
• equalize
• balance
• modify

Related words: (words related to BARTER)

• TRADE-MARK
  A peculiar distinguishing mark or device affixed by a manufacturer or a merchant to his goods, the exclusive right of using which is recognized by law.
• MODIFY
  1. To change somewhat the form or qualities of; to alter somewhat; as, to modify a contrivance adapted to some mechanical purpose; to modify the terms of a contract. 2. To limit or reduce in extent or degree; to moderate; to qualify; to lower.
• TRAFFICLESS
  Destitute of traffic, or trade.
• ALTERNATING CURRENT
  A current which periodically changes or reverses its direction of flow.
• BUSINESS
  The position, distribution, and order of persons and properties on the stage of a theater, as determined by the stage manager in rehearsal. 7. Care; anxiety; diligence. Chaucer. To do one's business, to ruin one. Wycherley. -- To make one's
• ALTERNATION
  Permutation. 3. The response of the congregation speaking alternately with the minister. Mason. Alternation of generation. See under Generation. (more info) 1. The reciprocal succession of things in time or place; the act of following and being
• DEALBATION
  Act of bleaching; a whitening.
• EQUALIZER
  One who, or that which, equalizes anything.
• EXCHANGE EDITOR
  An editor who inspects, and culls from, periodicals, or exchanges, for his own publication.
• TRAFFIC MILE
  Any unit of the total obtained by adding the passenger miles and ton miles in a railroad's transportation for a given period; -- a term and practice of restricted or erroneous usage. Traffic mile is a term designed to furnish an excuse
• TRADESFOLK
  People employed in trade; tradesmen. Swift.
• DEALFISH
  A long, thin fish of the arctic seas .
• ALTERNAT
  A usage, among diplomats, of rotation in precedence among representatives of equal rank, sometimes determined by lot and at other times in regular order. The practice obtains in the signing of treaties and conventions between nations.
• ALTERATION
  1. The act of altering or making different. Alteration, though it be from worse to better, hath in it incoveniences. Hooker. 2. The state of being altered; a change made in the form or nature of a thing; changed condition. Ere long might perceive
• TRADESPEOPLE
  People engaged in trade; shopkeepers.
• BARTER
  To traffic or trade, by exchanging one commodity for another, in distinction from a sale and purchase, in which money is paid for the commodities transferred; to truck. (more info) fr. Gr. to do, deal , use practices or tricks, or perh.
• EQUALIZE
  1. To make equal; to cause to correspond, or be like, in amount or degree as compared; as, to equalize accounts, burdens, or taxes. One poor moment can suffice To equalize the lofty and the low. Wordsworth. No system of instruction will completely
• INTERCOURSE
  A This sweet intercourse Of looks and smiles. Milton. Sexual intercourse, sexual or carnal connection; coition. Syn. -- Communication; connection; commerce; communion; fellowship; familiarity; acquaintance. (more info) commerce, exchange,
• SUBSTITUTED
  Containing substitutions or replacements; having been subjected to the process of substitution, or having some of its parts replaced; as, alcohol is a substituted water; methyl amine is a substituted ammonia. Substituted executor , an executor
• TRAFFICABLE
  Capable of being disposed of in traffic; marketable. Bp. Hall.
• SUBALTERNANT
  A universal proposition. See Subaltern, 2. Whately.
• THYROIDEAL
  Thyroid.
• FALTER
  To thrash in the chaff; also, to cleanse or sift, as barley. Halliwell.
• ENTERDEAL
  Mutual dealings; intercourse. The enterdeal of princes strange. Spenser.
• MISALTER
  To alter wrongly; esp., to alter for the worse. Bp. Hall.
• INTERCOMMUNICATION
  Mutual communication. Owen.
• REEXCHANGE
  To exchange anew; to reverse .
• SOLE TRADER
  A feme sole trader.
• IDEALISTIC
  Of or pertaining to idealists or their theories.
• DOUBLE DEALER
  One who practices double dealing; a deceitful, trickish person. L'Estrange.