Sentence examples for barter I from inspiring English sources

Barter, I find, drives engagement in a deeper way than when you are simply dealing with money.

"Lately, most of the barter I have done is for things that I normally couldn't afford otherwise," she wrote.

"My regular clients barely cover my monthly expenses, but with barter I can be broke in style".

"I think it's a form of repayment in kind, a barter — 'I don't have cash, but I have these paintings,' " said Mr. Hill, the art investigator.

(Jackson is generally a reluctant signer, but Wehrmann lures him with barter: "I give him photos. Like Elizabeth Taylor photos and Shirley Temple photos. He loves that. You hold up a Shirley Temple, he'll come, like, running over").

Lowden, who is running for the Republican nomination for Senate in Nevada (and has been considered the likely nominee), said that it would be better if government and even big insurance companies weren't so involved with health care; they weren't really necessary anyway, given that patients could just barter: I'm telling you that this works.

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"We bartered; I dyed his hair green and he gave me all these free CD's".

The only "bartering" I do these days is best described as "professional courtesies".

We do old-fashioned bartering: I swapped some peas I'd grown for a tomato plant; when I looked after someone's house they paid me in beef.

Re "I'll Fix Your Computer if You Paint My Office" (June 23), which described the use of bartering by individuals and small businesses: Having been a consultant for many years, in the few instances where prospective clients have suggested bartering, I quickly discovered a fundamental fact -- they wanted to "buy" my services at wholesale, and "sell" theirs at full retail.