Sentence examples for use of bartering from inspiring English sources

The disclosure by StarMedia, whose revenue last year totaled $60 million, comes after it was criticized for other accounting practices, like the waiver of $10.4 million of loans to top executives in the second quarter and the use of bartering to account for about a quarter of all sales.

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.

Since Syria's currency is now worthless, much of the day-to-day business is conducted through use of a barter system.

Many of us are used to bartering, swapping or trading.

Ideally, the foods should be shelf-stable, require no refrigeration, and even more ideally should be easy to use for bartering purposes in the event of emergency.

This could be accomplished with the infusion of a global, resource-based civilization where all goods and services are available without the use of money, credit, barter or any other form of debt or servitude.

And that reinvention was something of a revolution, and one that speaks directly to us, because the way they used money, instead of barter or a straight equivalent in precious metals, required both buyer and seller to accept the abstract idea of value.

Amerindians used its plumes as a means of bartering, but the extent of this practice was not believed to be enough to put significant pressure on heron numbers (Kushlan and Hancock 2005).

There was a lot of bartering between us.

Could contemporary society function under the antiquated model of bartering?

You did a lot of bartering in those days: you used to buy rabbits with the skin on, or an old cockerel.