barter
verb (used without object)
to trade by exchange of commodities rather than by the use of money.
is bartering
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present progressiveof barter (3rd person singular).present progressive
Used to describe an ongoing action or state that is currently taking place in the immediate present.
Example Sentences
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Monetary transactions are not allowed, and neither is bartering.
From Salon ● Sep. 24, 2022
This year Britain is using more butter, Germany is bartering manufactured goods for butter, and Argentine butter production suffered from drought.
From Time Magazine Archive
Hugon, half Monacan and half Frenchman, is bartering skins with a Quaker.
From Audrey by Johnston, Mary
There another is bartering for a spray of flowers, and thus one sold the branch of red maple leaves in our room at the Nara inn.
From Farmers of Forty Centuries; Or, Permanent Agriculture in China, Korea, and Japan by King, F. H. (Franklin Hiram)
“I should like to make a sketch of him while he is bartering his peltries.”
From The Frontier Fort Stirring Times in the N-West Territory of British America by Friston, D. H.
