(v. i.) 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.
(v. t.) To trade or exchange in the way of barter; to exchange (frequently for an unworthy consideration); to traffic; to truck; -- sometimes followed by away; as, to barter away goods or honor.
(n.) The act or practice of trafficking by exchange of commodities; an exchange of goods.
(n.) The thing given in exchange.
Example Sentences:
(1) Children with living parents were bartered, abducted and palmed off to Americans and northern Europeans who paid large sums to have a child of their own.
(2) It is a bit rich to expect us to state exactly how we’ll whip our troops when Cameron himself still can’t come out and say what he’ll do with his own cabinet.” Behind the scenes, “sources close to Corbyn” could usefully soothe pro-European nerves: “As an internationalist party, our inclination is of course to remain within the European family, but it would be irresponsible to declare our hand now, leaving Cameron to barter away British employment rights.” However Corbyn votes himself, it is perfectly plain that he will not have the authority to whip individual Euro-enthusiast MPs to vote against their consciences, so he may as well concede that at once.
(3) We bartered for almonds and olives in the market, where there wasn't another tourist to be seen, and sat on the ramparts, watching the sun fall away beyond the horizon.
(4) It is "our only remaining bartering tool" one union leader said.
(5) The real bartering will be around the question of an acceptable definition of inequality.
(6) The question for the White House now is how the Copenhagen agreement will affect its ambitions to present Congress with a wide ranging energy bill that would enshrine a cap-and-trade system for reducing emissions through bartering.
(7) Women's rights have become a kind of bartering chip to be traded away for political agendas that have little or nothing to do with the interests and wellbeing of women and girls."
(8) People worked long hours for little, bartering farm produce for the few store-bought necessities.
(9) Leveson said her testimony was evidence that the family had been "targets of press intrusion" and felt there "was no remedy apart from bartering away your privacy".
(10) Once he had assembled his cast in the rehearsal rooms, Lepage mixed in some of his own family folklore, the tale of a grand-uncle who became so indebted to Chinese gamblers that he was forced to barter his pregnant daughter.
(11) This shows that restrictions on commercial and barter transactions, to be imposed by the authorities, are required.
(12) It leaves Arsenal with mixed feelings as the summer bartering comes to an end.
(13) If comics have to start bartering for groceries, their dignity's gone for good.
(14) A senior Russian government official – who spoke to Reuters – said separately that Russia has started supplying grain, equipment and construction materials to Iran in exchange for crude oil under a barter deal.
(15) We speculate that the enrichment of polyunsaturated fatty acids on the cell membranes may represent a condition favoring the lipoperoxidation and therefore the development of the retinitis pigmentosa characteristic feature of Laurence-Moon-Barter-Biedl Syndrome.
(16) The Kalunga have a cooperativist society and money is not frequently used as they favor the barter system.
(17) The rebels have described the kidnapped Europeans as prisoners of war and said they might be bartered for imprisoned pro-Russian activists in Kiev.
(18) Russia also said it has struck a barter deal with Iran, exchanging Iran oil for Russian grain and other commodities, although traders said they saw no sign of any increased shipments of either.
(19) Barterers are shown to be the heaviest drug users, using the greatest variety of drugs, using larger amounts of drugs, and using more frequently.
(20) By day, guests loll in the lounge area or sun themselves on the beach, bartering for fresh catch with local fishermen when they return from the sea in the afternoon.
Fore
Definition:
(v. i.) Journey; way; method of proceeding.
(adv.) In the part that precedes or goes first; -- opposed to aft, after, back, behind, etc.
(adv.) Formerly; previously; afore.
(adv.) In or towards the bows of a ship.
(adv.) Advanced, as compared with something else; toward the front; being or coming first, in time, place, order, or importance; preceding; anterior; antecedent; earlier; forward; -- opposed to back or behind; as, the fore part of a garment; the fore part of the day; the fore and of a wagon.
(n.) The front; hence, that which is in front; the future.
(prep.) Before; -- sometimes written 'fore as if a contraction of afore or before.
Example Sentences:
(1) There fore, the adverse effects may be induced by such quartz or silicon compounds.
(2) White House plan to hire more border agents raises vetting fear, ex-senior official says Read more “But the fact is when the world changed, you have to change too, and so I do think there are amazing new opportunities now because he’s bringing nationalism to the fore, he’s bringing it into the mainstream, he’s asking these existential questions like: are we a nation?
(3) While executing the latter movements no forward locomotion occurred at all; the cats solely executed lateral fore- and hindlimb movements opposite to the direction in which the cylinder rotated.
(4) This caused variations in fore-and-aft motion with position along the vertical axis of the head and variations in vertical motion with position along the fore-and-aft axis of the head.
(5) Moreover in the symmetrical gaits spatial phase shifts between unilateral limbs were equal to zero, which means that hind and fore limbs were placed in the same point during successive steps.
(6) No evidence for a differential decussation of fore-limb and hind-limb fibers was found.
(7) Standard 5-member series of weak electro-cutaneous stimulations of the fore-paw were applied in chronic experiments to two dogs with implanted cortical electrodes.
(8) Electromyographic studies revealed some abnormal insertional activity but no abnormal potentials when the fore- and hindlimb muscles were at total rest.
(9) Taking a break from rehearsal, police baton in hand, the 34-year-old said: "It doesn't point to anybody, but it brings to the fore the pain the tragic event cost.
(10) These fibers accumulated dorsomedially to the rostral pole of the substantia nigra where they formed a massive bundle that coursed through the prerubral field and ascended along the laterodorsal aspect of the medial fore-brain bundle in the lateral hypothalamus.
(11) The receptive fields of 48 specific cold units, located in the hairy and glaborous skin of fore- and hindlimbs of rhesus monkeys, were mapped and scale drawings made.
(12) The rat somatosensory (SI) cortex contains a precise map of the cutaneous periphery, yet its rostromedial edge, which includes part of the fore- and hind paw representation, has been reported to functionally overlap with the electrically excitable primary motor (MI) cortex.
(13) While gender violence occurs worldwide, the problem has come to the fore in several countries in Latin America through the work of prominent feminist groups, many of which argue their region is particularly plagued by social insecurity and male-dominated traditions.
(14) Exposure to phosphoramide mustard produced limb reduction malformations in both the fore- and hindlimbs; total limb bone area was greatly reduced, while the relative contribution of the paw to this area in forelimbs was increased.
(15) Periodontal disease is therefore considered a fore-runner to the clinically more important spinal osteoporosis.
(16) For this enzyme beside the nuclei, the commissures and fore-brain bundles are seen equipped with very intense activity.
(17) ACR-CH or aclarubicin aqueous solution (ACR-sol) was injected subcutaneously into the fore foot-pads of rats.
(18) We have examined early neuronal differentiation and axonogenesis in the fore- and midbrain of zebrafish embryos to address general issues of early vertebrate brain development.
(19) The impulses of fore-aft force were closely correlated with step length.
(20) Excessive weight-bearing on the complete fore-foot as a consequence of missing support by contracted metatarsophalangeal joints.