Sentence examples for barter scheme from inspiring English sources

As members of a barter scheme, such as Bartercard, the furniture business will sell the chairs at the retail price for "trade pounds", which have the same value as sterling.

The barter scheme eventually failed but the Canadian Navy had already ordered the whale catchers.

For barter schemes like yours and mine to be distinguishable from theft, they must be knowingly accepted by both parties in the transaction.

During the nine years Miller predecessor Rem Vyakhirev Rem Vyakhirev was at the helm, malfeasance was rampant: The company lost 10% of its gas reserves equal to that of Exxon, or $5 billion through asset-stripping, $2 billion in construction writeoffs and at least $5 billion in disadvantageous barter schemes with local municipalities.

Indeed, it almost seemed at times that innovative measures like the ALBA exchange program, barter schemes, anti-poverty relief banks, worker-owned firms, alternative currencies, participatory budgeting and economic cooperatives to name just a few were a mere afterthought when juxtaposed with populists' more realpolitik objectives.

And that has led many Cubans to subdivide their often decaying dwellings or to upgrade their surroundings through a decades-old bartering scheme known in Cuban slang as permuta.

He has emboldened and bankrolled leftist leaders across the continent, helped Argentina and others pay back and boot out the I.M.F. and sponsored a continentwide bartering scheme of oil, cattle, wheat and civil servants, reminding even those who despise him that they can stand up to the great Northern power.

The barter system took over.

It's sort of a barter system.

"It's like the barter system.

"We have adopted a barter system.