Barter vs. Swap

Barternoun

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

Barternoun

The goods or services used in such an exchange.

Barterverb

To exchange goods or services without involving money.

Barterverb

To traffic or trade, by exchanging one commodity for another, in distinction from a sale and purchase, in which money is paid for the commodities transferred; to truck.

Barterverb

To trade or exchange in the way of barter; to exchange (frequently for an unworthy consideration); to traffic; to truck; - sometimes followed by away; as, to barter away goods or honor.

Barternoun

The act or practice of trafficking by exchange of commodities; an exchange of goods.

Barternoun

The thing given in exchange.

Barternoun

an equal exchange;

Barterverb

exchange goods without involving money

Barterverb

exchange (goods or services) for other goods or services without using money

Barternoun

the action or system of bartering

Barternoun

goods or services used in bartering

Barter

In trade, barter (derived from baretor) is a system of exchange in which participants in a transaction directly exchange goods or services for other goods or services without using a medium of exchange, such as money. Economists distinguish barter from gift economies in many ways; barter, for example, features immediate reciprocal exchange, not one delayed in time.

Swapverb

(transitive) To exchange or give (something) in an exchange (for something else).

Swapverb

To hit, to strike.

Swapverb

To beat the air, or ply the wings, with a sweeping motion or noise; to flap.

Swapverb

To descend or fall; to rush hastily or violently.

Swapnoun

An exchange of two comparable things.

Swapnoun

(finance) A financial derivative in which two parties agree to exchange one stream of cashflow against another stream.

Swapnoun

Space available in a swap file for use as auxiliary memory.

Swapnoun

A blow; a stroke.

Swapverb

To strike; - with off.

Swapverb

To exchange (usually two things of the same kind); to swop.

Swapverb

To fall or descend; to rush hastily or violently.

Swapverb

To beat the air, or ply the wings, with a sweeping motion or noise; to flap.

Swapnoun

A blow; a stroke.

Swapnoun

An exchange; a barter.

Swapadverb

Hastily.

Swapnoun

an equal exchange;

Swapverb

exchange or give (something) in exchange for

Swapverb

move (a piece of a program) into memory, in computer science

Swapverb

take part in an exchange of

Swapverb

give (one thing) and receive something else in exchange

Swapverb

substitute (one thing) for another

Swapnoun

an act of exchanging one thing for another

Swapnoun

a thing that has been or may be given in exchange for something else

Swapnoun

an exchange of liabilities between two borrowers, either so that each acquires access to funds in a currency they need or so that a fixed interest rate is exchanged for a floating rate.