different between barter vs troak

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

Alternative forms

• troke

Etymology

From Scots troak, troke (“to barter, truck”), from Middle English trukken, trukien (> English truck), from Old French troquier, of Germanic origin. Compare German Trug (“deceit, trickery, deception”). More at truck.

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /t???k/
• (US) enPR: tr?k, IPA^(key): /t?o?k/

Verb

troak (third-person singular simple present troaks, present participle troaking, simple past and past participle troaked)

1. (Scotland) To barter or trade, especially outside a government monopoly.

Synonyms

• (barter, trade): swap, swop

Translations

Noun

troak (uncountable)

1. (Scotland) Barter; exchange; truck.
2. (Scotland) Small wares.
3. (Scotland) Familiar intercourse.

Anagrams

• Korat, Tokar