bartered

verb

past tense of barter
as in traded

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Recent Examples of Synonyms for bartered
  1. traded
  2. bargained
  3. negotiated
  4. transacted
  5. exchanged
  6. dealt
  7. trafficked
  8. swapped
Verb
  • Phoenix guard Kelsey Plum did not play against the team that traded her a little over a week ago.
    — ABC News, ABC News, 12 Aug. 2026
  • Colston Loveland and Luther Burden III are both just 22 years old, and should be able to step into larger roles within the offense with DJ Moore traded to Buffalo.
    — John Cassillo, Forbes.com, 12 Aug. 2026
Definition of traded
Verb
  • Like other major sports leagues, the WNBA’s eligibility rule is collectively bargained and thus protected by the non-statutory labor exemption.
    — Michael McCann, Sportico.com, 12 Aug. 2026
  • The luxury tax was collectively bargained with a tax utilized to constrain owners from overspending the annual threshold.
    — Barry M. Bloom, Forbes.com, 4 Aug. 2026
Definition of bargained
Verb
  • This will happen on six occasions from October through to December, but only if the tie against Tromso is safely negotiated to set up three home matches and three away in the league phase.
    — Andy Naylor, New York Times, 14 Aug. 2026
  • Greenwich plans to release the film in theaters early next year after the company’s Andy Bohn negotiated the deal with CAA Media Finance on behalf of the filmmakers.
    — Andreas Wiseman, Deadline, 12 Aug. 2026
Definition of negotiated
Verb
  • Aggregated across 115 million American adults, the team puts the total consumer surplus at roughly $172 billion a year — value received and never transacted, comfortably more than the AI industry collected in American revenue over the same period.
    — Vibhas Ratanjee, Forbes.com, 17 Aug. 2026
  • For decades, billions of dollars in advertising have been transacted on Nielsen ratings that tabulate how many people saw a TV program or commercial, and, also on how many people of a certain age or gender did as well.
    — Brian Steinberg, Variety, 9 May 2026
Definition of transacted
Verb
  • What matters then is the rate at which one is exchanged for the other, and that rate is set by architecture.
    — Sanjay Srivastava, Forbes.com, 12 Aug. 2026
  • Despite letters being exchanged virtually, the pace was glacial.
    — Ryan Lenora Brown, Christian Science Monitor, 12 Aug. 2026
Definition of exchanged
Verb
  • The Pats were dealt a tough blow Thursday when Brown suffered an injury that forced his removal from the game.
    — Chad Graff, New York Times, 14 Aug. 2026
  • Hathaway was dealt the unenviable task of embodying director James Gray’s mother in Armageddon Time, an autobiographical drama based on his childhood.
    — Chris Bellamy, Entertainment Weekly, 14 Aug. 2026
Definition of dealt
Verb
  • The government has been required by law for decades to protect migrant children who are in the country illegally without guardians, over fears they could be exploited, abused or trafficked.
    — Sergio Martínez-Beltrán, NPR, 5 Aug. 2026
  • In recent years, West Africa has emerged as a key transit route for cocaine trafficked from South America to Europe, with smugglers taking advantage of porous borders and weak enforcement in parts of the region.
    — ABC News, ABC News, 30 July 2026
Definition of trafficked
Verb
  • Palace also swapped winger Brennan Johnson for Everton forward Dwight McNeil, who is an option to start against them at Hill Dickinson Stadium in the clubs’ August 22 opener.
    — Chris Weatherspoon, New York Times, 14 Aug. 2026
  • Their friends were amazed by their likeness, and ⁠the girls swapped addresses.
    — Reuters, NBC news, 12 Aug. 2026
Definition of swapped
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