barter
verb (used without object)
to trade by exchange of commodities rather than by the use of money.
will barter
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future tenseof barter.future tense
Used to express actions, events, or states that have not yet occurred but are expected to happen.
Example Sentences
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“You think Anansi will barter for a broken, dusty old crate?”
From "Tristan Strong Punches a Hole in the Sky" by Kwame Mbalia
I will barter and buy; the fairest of all shalt thou choose thee, Joyously would I devote all of the cargo to thee.
From The Poems of Goethe Translated in the original metres by Edgar Alfred Bowring
I will barter breeches, coat, waistcoat, ruffles, stockings, buckled shoes, for a plain drab shoddy suit, some common hose, and a pair of hob-nailed boots.
From The Wayfarers by J. C. Snaith
I will barter all for one week,—no, one day—of happiness.
From A Village Ophelia and Other Stories by Anne Reeve Aldrich
Of these prophylactics, which answer to European medals and similar fetish, a 'serious person' will wear dozens; and they are held to be such 'strong medicine' that even pagans will barter or pay for them.
From To the Gold Coast for Gold A Personal Narrative in Two Volumes.—Volume I by Sir Richard Francis Burton
