单词 | barter |
释义 | bartern. 1. The act or practice of trafficking by exchange of commodities; truck. ΘΚΠ society > trade and finance > barter > [noun] formanginga1300 nifferc1400 barteringc1440 roring1440 commutation1496 scorsing1509 chopping and changing1548 exchange1553 truck1553 block1568 bartery1570 chopping1581 scorse1590 barter1592 trucking1594 swap1625 truckage1641 truck trade1740 handling1850 1592 W. West Symbolæogr.: 1st Pt. B j. §26 The putting of such thinges in fellowship or barter. 1677 A. Yarranton England's Improvem. 186 In the way of barter, the Pin-Makers may have..Bacon from Shrewsbury for Pins. 1796 E. Burke Two Lett. Peace Regicide Directory France in Wks. (1808) VIII. 334 Differences arising from the spirit of huckstering and barter. 1857 D. Livingstone Missionary Trav. S. Afr. xx. 407 Salt..and calico are the common medium of barter. 2. figurative. Exchange, interchange. ΘΚΠ the world > time > change > exchange > [noun] change?c1225 changingc1350 interchangingc1374 exchangec1384 permutationa1398 commutation1496 achange1530 chopping and changing1548 interchange1548 exchanging1553 promutation1560 intercourse1576 counterchange1579 chopping1581 counter-cambio?1592 interchangementa1616 commerce1631 swapping1695 barter1819 counterchanging1881 switching1904 va-et-vient1919 switch-around1981 1819 W. Scott Ivanhoe III. ii. 60 I will exchange no more cuffs with thee, having been a loser by the barter. 1844 A. W. Kinglake Eothen ii. 27 We made our sullen way through the darkness, with scarcely one barter of words. 3. Goods to be bartered or traded in by exchange. ΘΚΠ society > trade and finance > merchandise > [noun] > goods for bartering truck1555 trade goods1631 barterya1638 barter1713 1713 H. Felton Diss. Reading Classics 90 Ladies that change plate for china: for which the laudable traffick of old clothes is much the fairest barter. 1800 J. Stuart in Marquess Wellesley Select. Despatches (1877) 577 Piece goods and grain may be made barter for any quantity of coffee. Categories » 4. Arithmetic. The computation of the quantity or value of one commodity, to be given for a known quantity and value of another; the ‘rule’ or method of computing this. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1885; most recently modified version published online March 2022). barterv. 1. transitive. To give (a commodity) in exchange for something taken as of equivalent value; distinguished from purchase and sell, which imply that money is given for the commodity. to barter away: to dispose of by barter; cf. also 2. Const. for (with obsolete) a thing, with a person. ΘΚΠ society > trade and finance > barter > [verb (transitive)] interchangec1374 changea1382 barterc1440 corsec1440 rore1440 truckc1440 coss14.. scorse1509 chafferc1535 to chop and change1549 chop1554 cope1570 excourse1593 swap1594 coupc1610 exchange1614 to trade off1676 rap1699 dicker1864 horse-trade1924 society > trade and finance > barter > [verb (transitive)] > dispose of by barter exchange1483 chaffer1530 to chop away1554 swap1590 truck1686 to barter away1690 c1440 Promptorium Parvulorum 25 Bartryn or changyn, or chafare oone thynge for a othere, cambio. 1530 J. Palsgrave Lesclarcissement 444/1 It is a comen feate of marchauntes to barter [Fr. trocquer] ware for ware. a1616 W. Shakespeare Henry VI, Pt. 1 (1623) i. vi. 9 But with a baser man of Armes by farre, Once in contempt they would haue barter'd me. View more context for this quotation 1669 T. Gale Court of Gentiles: Pt. I i. iv. 23 They, by frequent Commerce..barter and exchange commodities, each with other. 1690 J. Locke Two Treat. Govt. (1960) ii. §46. 318 If he also bartered away Plumbs that would have rotted in a Week, for Nuts that would last good for his eating a whole Year, he did no injury. 1796 S. T. Coleridge Answer Melanch. Let. in Wks. I. 87 Barter for food the jewels of his crown. 1833 H. Martineau Charmed Sea iv. 44 Those who have little merchandise to barter away. 2. figurative. a. To exchange. ΘΚΠ the world > time > change > exchange > exchange, change for [verb (transitive)] changec1225 truck?c1225 interchangec1374 permutec1400 wrixlec1400 turnc1449 wissel1487 chaffer1530 niffer1540 bandy1589 to chaffer words1590 swap1590 barter1596 counterchange1598 commute1633 trade1636 countercambiate1656 ring1786 rebarter1845 trade1864 swop1890 permutate1898 interconvert1953 1596 W. Warner Albions Eng. (rev. ed.) ix. xlix. 228 Such hearts to barter bloes. 1664 H. More Modest Enq. Myst. Iniquity v. 12 They have..bartered away one great evil for several others. 1848 C. Kingsley Saint's Trag. iii. i. 18 I but barter Less grief for greater. b. To part with for a consideration, usually a mercenary or unworthy one; to bargain away. ΘΚΠ society > trade and finance > barter > [verb (transitive)] > dispose of by barter > esp. for something unworthy trucka1657 to truck away1656 barter1667 1667 R. Allestree Causes Decay Christian Piety ix. 268 They will barter away their time. 1764 O. Goldsmith Traveller 16 Even liberty itself is barter'd here. 1863 W. Phillips Speeches iii. 49 The greatest hour of the age was bartered away. 1865 J. Bright Speeches Amer. Question 114 Writers of eminence and honor, who will not barter human rights for the patronage of the great. 3. intransitive. To trade by exchange of commodities. ΘΚΠ society > trade and finance > barter > [verb (intransitive)] chopc1485 to chop and changec1485 barterc1503 truck1588 scorse1589 rap1699 swap1778 dicker1797 handel1850 c1503 R. Arnold Chron. f. lxxxvij/1 To selle barter and occupye in our sayd landis and lordships. 1635 F. Quarles Emblemes ii. v. Epigr. 83 With thy bastard Bullion thou hast barterd for wares of price. 1865 D. Livingstone & C. Livingstone Narr. Exped. Zambesi xix. 391 We did not see much evidence of a wish to barter. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1885; most recently modified version published online December 2021). < n.1592v.c1440 |
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