Sentence examples for barter payments from inspiring English sources

Customers pay $1 per sheep per day, but Mr. Miller also accepts barter payments, which have so far included karate lessons, jugs of maple syrup and the use of one homeowner's truck.

The notion that we would be sitting in a 21st-century economy and reduced to barter payments was an invention of the bank lobby to get the taxpayers' money.

State involvement also results in what observers tend politely to term "non-commercial behaviour".For instance, Gazprom says it is steadily unloading non-core assets farms, holiday resorts and so on that were either left-over from Soviet times or received as barter payments from customers thereafter.

Half of this amount was collected due to withdrawal of funds from shadow schemes, the ban on barter payments and the introduction of competition rules to the energy market.

The suspect military systems on board the Chong Chon Gang freighter were buried under 200,000 sacks of raw sugar that was the Cubans' barter payment to the North Koreans for taking on the pickup, repair and delivery job.

Their habits of consuming culture free of charge on the Internet, he suggested, have "carried over into the world of work, so they're more willing to accept barter or in-kind payment," like free lunches.

The West escalated the economic war another notch on Wednesday, imposing a new set of restrictions intended to force Iran into what amounts to a form of barter trade for oil, because payments for oil deliveries can no longer be sent to accounts inside Iran.

Some of the decrees are relatively minor, like one smoothing the process in which the government transfers some banking assets among state agencies; others formalize socialist-inspired policies on the margins of the formal economy, like a measure declaring barter a legitimate system of payment.

Although the barter system is more inconvenient than payment through cash or credit cards, merchants prefer grain barter contracts because they help minimize the risk of losing money if the peso falls in value before a deal is completed.

Dmitri Smorodin, who runs a large St . Petersburgbuilding firm, said he thought for two months before announcing in late January that he was willing to accept barter items — including food products — as payment for construction work.

For years, power companies have subsidized the Russian economy by continuing to supply non-paying customers with electricity and accepting a large share of payments they did receive in barter and mutual debt write-offs.