different between barter vs barger

English

Etymology

Late Middle English, from Old French barater.

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /?b??(?)t?(?)/
• (US) enPR: bär?t?r, IPA^(key): /?b??t?/, [?b????]
• Rhymes: -??(?)t?(?)

Noun

barter (usually uncountable, plural barters)

1. An exchange of goods or services without the use of money.

2. The goods or services used in such an exchange.

Synonyms

• quid pro quo
• swap
• swop
• trade

See also

• payment in kind

Translations

Verb

barter (third-person singular simple present barters, present participle bartering, simple past and past participle bartered)

1. (transitive, intransitive) To exchange goods or services without involving money.

Synonyms

• swap
• swop
• trade

Translations

Anagrams

• Barret, Traber, barret

Yagara

Verb

barter

1. bite

References

• Eipper, Christopher, STATEMENT OF THE ORIGIN, CONDITION, AND PROSPECTS, OF THE GERMAN MISSION TO THE ABORIGINES AT MORETON BAY, CONDUCTED UNDER THE AUSPICES OF THE PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH IN NEW SOUTH WALES, 1841.

English

Etymology

barge +? -er

Noun

barger (plural bargers)

1. One who barges or shoves.
   • 1999, Gregg Andrew Hurwitz, The Tower (page 182)

     “Looks like we're here,” Travers said as Jade strode up the narrow walkway and barged into the waiting room. He was a practiced barger, Travers thought as she followed him in, realizing she actually admired him for it.

2. (obsolete) The manager of a barge.

Anagrams

• Brager, Garber, Graber, regrab