bartering
Definitions
The action or system of exchanging goods or services for other goods or services without using money.
The act of trading items or labor directly for other items or labor.
Examples
The villagers survived the economic crisis by bartering their surplus crops for essential supplies.
Bartering has become a popular way for neighbors to exchange services like gardening and tutoring without using money.
Before the invention of currency, ancient civilizations relied heavily on bartering to trade goods and livestock.
Synonyms
trading swapping exchanging haggling dealing trafficking switching