bartered

verb

past tense of barter
as in traded

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  1. traded
  2. bargained
  3. negotiated
  4. transacted
  5. exchanged
  6. dealt
  7. trafficked
  8. swapped
Verb
  • The next season Padover traded for Allisha Gray for two draft picks, giving the Dream a solid foundation with Gray, Howard and Hillmon.
    — ABC News, ABC News, 12 Oct. 2026
  • Since then, the shop and Clarkson have traded messages on social media.
    — Allison DeGrushe, StyleCaster, 12 Oct. 2026
Definition of traded
Verb
  • Salary caps in the NFL, NBA and NHL, along with the luxury-tax system in MLB, are lawful because they’ve been collectively bargained.
    — Michael McCann, Sportico.com, 28 Sep. 2026
  • The Jefferson County Education Association bargained the provisions after Evergreen became the district's third school shooting, following Columbine High School in 1999 and Deer Creek Middle School in 2010.
    — Anna Alejo, CBS News, 9 Sep. 2026
Definition of bargained
Verb
  • The deal was negotiated by Bressack and Matthew Helderman, CEO and co-founder of BondIt and Buffalo 8.
    — Mya Copeland, Variety, 13 Oct. 2026
  • The women negotiated a lease and arranged to meet him at his home.
    — Emerson Clarridge, Fort Worth Star-Telegram, 12 Oct. 2026
Definition of negotiated
Verb
  • The bulk of the trades – about 125 puts with strikes from 2,250 to 2,500 – were transacted closer to the ask, suggesting they were bought.
    — Oliver Renick, CNBC, 9 Oct. 2026
  • 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
Definition of transacted
Verb
  • No payment is requested or exchanged at any point during the selection, evaluation or ranking process; inclusion is based solely on the methodology.
    — Kelli Grant, CFP®,Riley de León, CNBC, 8 Oct. 2026
  • Fresh off the heels of Thom Browne’s New York Fashion Week presentation, where models and dancers embodied bugs and butterflies, the designer exchanged emails with Tyler Matthew Oyer about his creative process.
    — Tyler Matthew Oyer, Los Angeles Times, 7 Oct. 2026
Definition of exchanged
Verb
  • Douglas said that Cameron was addicted to cocaine and heroin, dealt methamphetamine and carried a Glock for protection.
    — Christina Dugan Ramirez, FOXNews.com, 10 Oct. 2026
  • But in a similar move to the substantial losses that Iran had been dealt by the US and Israel earlier in the war, the Houthis chose asymmetric targets.
    — Mohammed Sergie, semafor.com, 10 Oct. 2026
Definition of dealt
Verb
  • The parks offer a diverse range of experiences and, of course, not all are as trafficked as the most popular ones.
    — Tiney Ricciardi, Denver Post, 10 Oct. 2026
  • In the 1990s, Nigerian rings often trafficked drugs from Southeast Asia to Chicago via couriers, according to the Justice Department.
    — Adrian Elimian, semafor.com, 8 Oct. 2026
Definition of trafficked
Verb
  • Roberts had swapped Hernández and slumping Will Smith in the batting order, moving Hernández up to third and Smith down to fifth.
    — Maddie Lee, Los Angeles Times, 13 Oct. 2026
  • Factories first swapped the central steam plant that drove every machine through a system of rotating shafts for an electric motor.
    — Nick Lichtenberg, Fortune, 13 Oct. 2026
Definition of swapped
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