(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.
Tradeoff
Definition:
Example Sentences:
(1) Tradeoffs between the fidelity of reconstructed data and the overall compression are examined.
(2) What is most important to a company might not be crucial to the public good, and focusing on any one ecosystem service often comes with tradeoffs in other areas.
(3) Enrollees will face tradeoffs between their desire for maximum freedom of choice of provider and higher premiums, deductibles, and out-of-pocket expenses.
(4) Concerns include the timing of the various bills, with MPs keen to ensure the government does not bind its hands in the negotiations with the EU by drawing up restrictive rules on immigration, before establishing what the tradeoffs might be.
(5) In the past you didn’t need to fight for attention in the same way and now all kinds of media are converging and competing with each other, so really you’re in an attention economy.” Blank-Settle says that journalists should beware of attempting to do too much in six seconds: “In journalism there’s always the tradeoff between what you want to say in the story and the time you have to say it.
(6) Practically, all six functions are highly interrelated necessitating tradeoffs.
(7) The results also showed tradeoffs between complexity of word combinations and phonetic complexity of individual lexical items (phonetic product for words) for 4 of the 5 children.
(8) Reaction time and movement time effects were observed, but a speed-accuracy tradeoff was found only for rotations for which the direction-reversal strategy could be used.
(9) Deflation timing, however, involves a tradeoff between maximizing the external variables and minimizing the internal variables.
(10) Such "impossible" tradeoffs force people into choosing short-term needs over longer-term wellbeing.
(11) The results suggest that the intensity-time tradeoff for the investigated intensity interval is between 1.5 and 3 dB per halving of the duration.
(12) Based on the obtained results, design tradeoffs are identified and quantified, and guidelines for optimum designs are specified.
(13) Alert to a worsening tradeoff between inflation and unemployment, Keynesian policymakers tried to sustain the boom through income policy – controlling wage costs by concluding national agreements with trade unions.
(14) Using these techniques, analysts have addressed many important clinical issues including screening for and prevention of disease, tradeoffs among tests and treatments, and the interpretation of clinical data under conditions of uncertainty.
(15) As prospective reimbursement schemes and resource utilization groups (RUGs) are implemented, we expect that tradeoffs such as these will become even more critical than they are now.
(16) An experiment was conducted to determine whether information tradeoffs occurred when subjects attended selectively to one of two different structural levels of naturalistic scenes.
(17) Under stabilizing or equilibrium selection, the mean phenotypes take on values identical to those which would be predicted by an "optimization of fitness in the face of tradeoffs" approach.
(18) This note suggests that a sex specific size advantage may not favor sex change if the advantage is offset by other life-history tradeoffs.
(19) Only one respondent (4%) reported that he routinely informs patients of the issues and tradeoffs involved in deciding whether to use lower or higher osmolality media.
(20) The document says the push to keep Cheshire NHS’s overspend in 2017-18 to £3.5m by forcing through such unprecedented measures would result in “significant tradeoffs” that will harm patients and produce longer waiting times.