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bartering

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verb

present participle of barter

Example Sentences

Recent Examples of Synonyms for bartering
Noun
  • The latter arrangement has floundered amid a trade war with China and was not part of a deal to temporarily bring down tariffs last week.
    Francesca Chambers, USA Today, 18 May 2025
  • Walmart, Mattel and other retailers will boost prices as the trade war hits shoppers.
    Christopher Reynolds, Los Angeles Times, 17 May 2025
Verb
  • For some bargaining units, like the California Association of State Attorneys and Administrative Law Judges, the change came less than a month after the union started bargaining a new contract with the state.
    William Melhado, Sacramento Bee, 5 Mar. 2025
  • As Philadelphia systematically destroyed Kansas City on Sunday, Eagles fans were no doubt too … ebullient to pay much attention to the ads, while Chiefs supporters no doubt spent the commercial breaks bargaining with God or dousing themselves with Arthur Bryant‘s Barbecue Sauce for luck.
    Mary McNamara, Los Angeles Times, 10 Feb. 2025
Noun
  • To Update Or Stop Using Browser The first stop for Final Destination Bloodlines in the home entertainment marketplace will be digital streaming via premium video on demand.
    Tim Lammers, Forbes.com, 16 May 2025
  • The latter firm sees the value of the global women’s sports marketplace growing 300% to $1.28 billion in the next three years.
    Anthony Crupi, Sportico.com, 16 May 2025
Verb
  • The new rules will also impact businesses transacting with SMEs.
    Aleksandra Bal, Forbes, 8 Dec. 2024
  • Except that buyers and sellers alike increasingly disdain transacting with and selling for cash.
    John Tamny, Forbes, 5 Dec. 2024
Noun
  • Trump enacted the tariffs using the International Emergency Economic Powers Act (IEEPA), a 1970s law that allows the president to regulate commerce during a national emergency.
    Martha McHardy, MSNBC Newsweek, 1 May 2025
  • Anything less risks reviving the opacity that plagued early social commerce.
    Nizan Geslevich Packin, Forbes.com, 1 May 2025
Verb
  • The two players have been negotiating deals with Cincinnati to keep them with the organization for years to come.
    Mark Davis, Newsweek, 15 Mar. 2025
  • The company is negotiating with strategic investors and commercial lenders to provide additional capital for the expansion of HOPE clinics.
    Quartz Intelligence Newsroom, Quartz, 14 Mar. 2025
Noun
  • Officers then turned her over to Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents for a deportation hearing, although police later dropped the traffic charges against her, according to local media reports.
    Trevor Hughes, USA Today, 15 May 2025
  • Last year, the FAA shifted oversight of Newark’s airspace to Philadelphia in an effort to ease staffing shortages and manage heavy air traffic in the New York region.
    Samantha-Jo Roth, The Washington Examiner, 14 May 2025
Noun
  • The focus is on merchandising locations, but those who study the image will spy an opera house and a general store, believed to be the first time such concepts appear.
    Todd Martens, Los Angeles Times, 13 May 2025
  • Owen Carr, chief merchandising officer for e-commerce firm Spreetail, told Modern Retail the holiday toy pipeline has been effectively frozen due to the lack of clarity around the on again, off again tariffs.
    Jesus Mesa, MSNBC Newsweek, 6 May 2025
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“Bartering.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/bartering. Accessed 20 May. 2025.

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