bartering
Speech parts
1. bartering - Noun
2. bartering - Verb
Meaning
of Barter
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The commerce of minds was necessarily the first commerce in the world, ... since before bartering things one must barter signs, and it is necessary therefore that signs be instituted. There is no market or exchange without language. The first instrument of all commerce is language.
72 Virgins" is very suspicious to me. It's a clue. It tells you we're dealing with people from a bartering culture. Because nobody starts with that number; somebody said, "100 virgins!" "50!" "85!" "69!" "79!" "71!" "73!" "72!" "Done!
We are all amateur attention economists, hoarding and bartering our moments - or watching them slip away down the cracks of a thousand YouTube clips.
By 1865, the Confederate dollar was worthless due to high inflation, and people in the South had to resort to bartering services for goods, or else use scarce Union dollars.
And now the same two people in the room, the doctor and the patient — behind the room is a gigantic industry of people buying, selling, trading, bartering, discounting, marking up all of our services.
For example, cruising companies often have unused capacity, and when given the choice, prefer to pay their bills by bartering cruise vacations.