| Main Entry: | barter |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | trade goods or services |
Synonyms: |
bargain, exchange, haggle, swap, trade, traffic, truck |
| Concept: | Barter. |
| Category: | 3. Interchange of Property |
Synonyms: |
-nouns
barter, exchange, scorse, truck system; interchange., a Roland for an Oliver; quid pro quo; commutation, composition; Indian gift [U.S.]., trade, commerce, mercature, buying and selling, bargain and sale; traffic, business, nundination, custom, shopping; commercial enterprise, speculation, jobbing, stockjobbing, agiotage, brokery., dealing, transaction, negotiation, bargain., free trade.
-verbs
barter, exchange, truck, scorse, swop; interchange; commutate (substitute); compound for., trade, traffic, buy and sell, give and take, nundinate; carry on a trade, ply a trade, drive a trade; be in business, be in the city; keep a shop, deal in, employ one's capital in., trade with, deal with, have dealings with; transact business with, do business with; open an account with, keep an account with., bargain; drive a bargain, make a bargain; negotiate, bid for; haggle, higgle; dicker [U.S.]; chaffer, huckster, cheapen, beat down; stickle, stickle for; outbid, underbid; ask, charge; strike a bargain (contract)., speculate, give a sprat to catch a herring; buy in the cheapest and sell in the dearest market; rig the market, stag the market.
-adjectives
commercial, mercantile, trading; interchangeable, marketable, staple, in the market, for sale., wholesale, retail.
-adverbs
across the counter.
-phrases
cambio non e furto.
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| Main Entry: | bargain |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | negotiate terms of sale or agreement |
Synonyms: |
agree, arrange, barter, buy, compromise, confer, contract, covenant, deal, dicker, do business, haggle, make terms, palter, promise, sell, stipulate, trade, traffic, transact |
| Main Entry: | business |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | commerce, trade |
Synonyms: |
affairs, bargaining, barter, buying and selling, capital and labor, commercialism, contracts, deal, dealings, exchange, free enterprise, game, industrialism, industry, manufacturing, market, merchandising, production and distribution, racket, sales, selling, trading, traffic, transaction, undertaking |
| Notes: | the industry is the movie business and the business is the television industry |
| Main Entry: | change |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | substitute, replace |
Synonyms: |
alternate, barter, convert, displace, exchange, interchange, invert, remove, reverse, shift, supplant, swap, switch around, trade, transmit, transpose |
| Main Entry: | coax |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | persuade |
Synonyms: |
allure, argue into, arm-twist, barter, beguile, blandish, blarney, butter up, cajole, come on, con, decoy, entice, flatter, get, hook, importune, induce, influence, inveigle, jawbone, lure, pester, plague, press, prevail upon, rope in, soft-soap, soothe, sweet-talk, talk into, tease, tempt, urge, wangle, wheedle, work on, worm |
Antonyms: |
allow, not care |
| Main Entry: | commute |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | exchange, trade |
Synonyms: |
barter, change, convert, interchange, metamorphose, substitute, switch, transfer, transfigure, transform, translate, transmogrify, transmute, transpose |
Antonyms: |
keep |
| Main Entry: | cut a deal |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | make a deal |
Synonyms: |
bargain, barter, bicker, dicker, do business, hammer out a deal, negotiate, trade, work out a deal |
| Main Entry: | deal |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | do business |
Synonyms: |
bargain, barter, bicker, buy and sell, dicker, hammer out deal, handle, horse trade, knock down price, negotiate, sell, stock, swap, trade, traffic, treat, work out deal |
Antonyms: |
deny, refuse |
| Main Entry: | dicker |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | bargain; argue about |
Synonyms: |
barter, buy and sell, chaffer, cut a deal, haggle, hammer out a deal, huckster, negotiate, palter, trade, work out a deal |
Antonyms: |
agree |