Thesaurus results for BARTERS

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noun

plural of barter

as in exchanges

a giving or taking of one thing of value in return for another according to our barter agreement, I do all of the mechanical work on my neighbor's car, and he does all of my snow removal

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verb

present tense third-person singular of barter

as in transacts

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Noun

In earlier testimony at the Oakland trial, Francesco Fogu, Instagram’s director of product design, had contentious exchanges with the plaintiffs’ lawyer over internal chats and documents shown to the jury.

— Barbara Ortutay, Fortune, 26 Aug. 2026
In his WhatsApp exchanges, Molina appeared eager to help Romo kill members of their gang.

— Matthew Ormseth, Los Angeles Times, 26 Aug. 2026

Definition of exchanges

Noun

Oil can be bought and sold through futures, options, swaps, forward arrangements and physical-market transactions.

— Robert Rapier, Forbes.com, 29 Aug. 2026
The 9th Circuit ruling conflicts with a 3rd Circuit decision against New Jersey, which found that sports wagers on prediction markets are swaps.

— Jon Brodkin, ArsTechnica, 28 Aug. 2026

Definition of swaps

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Scalable Capital is opening its investment platform to AI assistants including ChatGPT, Claude and Grok—giving European investors the ability to analyze portfolios, set up savings plans and place trades through prompts.

— Joshua Hong, Fortune, 26 Aug. 2026
Unlike the James Webb Space Telescope, which trades panoramic views for a narrow field of view to peer deeply into small, specific patches of the sky, Roman is built for scale.

— Sharmila Kuthunur, Space.com, 26 Aug. 2026

Definition of trades

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The union usually bargains in the same year as performers’ union SAG-AFTRA and directors’ union the Directors Guild of America.

— Katie Kilkenny, HollywoodReporter, 6 Apr. 2026
One potential—though untested—workaround would be for conferences, which are private entities, to serve as a joint employer that bargains with a players’ union.

— Michael McCann, Sportico.com, 10 Mar. 2026

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