barter
verb (used without object)
to trade by exchange of commodities rather than by the use of money.
was bartering
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past progressiveof barter.past progressive
Used to describe an ongoing action or continuous state that was happening at a specific time in the past.
Example Sentences
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Louis Pommier, a French chef turned backpacker, was bartering his skill for attendance.
From New York Times ● Mar. 5, 2020
In essence, he was bartering for his life.
From The New Yorker ● Dec. 29, 2014
By then, the US-led sanctions were in place, and with its banking system frozen Iran was bartering tea from India in exchange for oil.
From Time ● Aug. 2, 2013
He was the first reporter to discover that proletarian Mexico was bartering expropriated oil for products from Nazi Germany.
From Time Magazine Archive
It was this information which the government suspected the great power was bartering for with the officer.
From Return of Tarzan by Edgar Rice Burroughs
