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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
  • As the weather cools and pool parties and cookouts are traded for football tailgates and pumpkin patches, why not add a concert to the mix?
    — DeAsia Paige, AJC.com, 21 Sep. 2026
  • The teams traded turnovers midway through the quarter as Jenkins threw his first interception of the season.
    — Matt Murschel, The Orlando Sentinel, 20 Sep. 2026
Definition of traded
Verb
  • 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
  • There is money tied to this format through playoff broadcasts, and any change would have to be collectively bargained between the league and MLBPA.
    — Zack Meisel, New York Times, 4 Sep. 2026
Definition of bargained
Verb
  • But there was this other documentary series filming there that had negotiated for exclusive rights to film at Burning Man for, like, two or three years.
    — Andrew Marantz, New Yorker, 14 Sep. 2026
  • But this is the second consecutive offseason Duren has negotiated for a new deal, and those attempts, thus far, have proven futile.
    — Hunter Patterson, New York Times, 11 Sep. 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
  • McConnell exchanged passes with Mac Allister before progressing the ball forward to Ngumoha.
    — Andy Jones, New York Times, 16 Sep. 2026
  • Americans in the 1960s knew Francis Gary Powers as the CIA pilot of a secret U-2 spy plane shot down in 1960 over Soviet Russia, who was exchanged in a prisoner swap in 1962, during the peak of the Cold War.
    — Patt Morrison, Los Angeles Times, 16 Sep. 2026
Definition of exchanged
Verb
  • Abby meanwhile was killed in the upstairs guest bedroom, but hit first on the side of the head before being dealt a total of 17 blows.
    — Chris Spargo, PEOPLE, 18 Sep. 2026
  • But, by then, Santiago had already gone on with his life, moving to Florida and having a family of his own while Vicchitto dealt for decades with the emotional scars, officials said.
    — Rebecca White, New York Daily News, 18 Sep. 2026
Definition of dealt
Verb
  • London’s Heathrow Airport has cozy but well-trafficked little nooks along their moving walkways.
    — AJ Willingham, AJC.com, 17 Sep. 2026
  • But in recent years, Fiji has seen a surge in intravenous drug use as the islands have emerged as a crucial transit point for narcotics being trafficked from the Americas to lucrative markets in Australia, New Zealand, and parts of Asia.
    — Lex Harvey, CNN Money, 16 Sep. 2026
Definition of trafficked
Verb
  • Ever since, the two teams have swapped victories each season, with Kiffin stoking the flames.
    — Dana O’Neil, CNN Money, 14 Sep. 2026
  • Swig said the majority of Miatas sell for $10,000 to $20,000 on average and there is a lot of interest in models that had the original inline four-cylinder engine swapped for a V8.
    — Morgan Korn, ABC News, 13 Sep. 2026
Definition of swapped
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“Bartered.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/bartered. Accessed 23 Sep. 2026.

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