barter or haggle

When you offer to trade your vintage jeans for a handwoven shirt in Guatemala, you are engaged in barter—no money is involved. One thing (or service) is traded for another.But when you offer to buy that shirt for less money than the vendor is asking, you are engaged in haggling or bargaining, not bartering.

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• heal vs heel
• notate vs note
• epitomy vs epitome
• ruff vs rough
• warmongerer vs warmonger
• benefactor vs beneficiary
• submittal vs submission
• woman vs women
• writting vs writing
• greatful vs grateful

Definitions

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• n  an equal exchange
  we had no money so we had to live by barter
• v  exchange goods without involving money

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• n  an instance of intense argument (as in bargaining)
• v  wrangle (over a price, terms of an agreement, etc.)
  Let's not haggle over a few dollars

News & Articles

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• Barter Theatre celebrates 80 years
  Barter Theatre hosted a birthday party Monday evening to commemorate its 80 year anniversary.
  June 11, 2013 - WCYB 5 Tri-Cities
• Barter Theatre celebrates 80 years
  Barter Theatre hosted a birthday party Monday evening to commemorate its 80 year anniversary.
  June 11, 2013 - WCYB 5 Tri-Cities
• Barter Theatre has 80th birthday
  The Barter Theatre building, dating to the early 1830s, began life as a church but has also been used as a town hall, a jail and an opera house. It became the Barter Theatre when it was approximately a century old.
  June 10, 2013 - Bristol Herald Courier

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• Is there room to haggle over the terms of a new-car lease?
  Q: Is there room to haggle over the terms of a new-car lease?
  June 14, 2013 - Louisville Courier-Journal
• Is there room to haggle over the terms of a new-car lease?
  Q: Is there room to haggle over the terms of a new-car lease?
  June 14, 2013 - Louisville Courier-Journal
• Miami-Dade Mayor Gimenez pushes to spend Dolphins windfall on elections equipment
  As county commissioners haggle over how to spend a cash windfall created by the Miami Dolphins’ failed attempt at a public referendum, the mayor is pressing to spend the money on elections equipment.
  June 10, 2013 - Miami Herald