bartered

verb

past tense of barter
as in traded

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Recent Examples of Synonyms for bartered
  1. traded
  2. bargained
  3. negotiated
  4. transacted
  5. exchanged
  6. dealt
  7. trafficked
  8. swapped
Verb
  • Phoenix guard Kelsey Plum did not play against the team that traded her a little over a week ago.
    — ABC News, ABC News, 12 Aug. 2026
  • Colston Loveland and Luther Burden III are both just 22 years old, and should be able to step into larger roles within the offense with DJ Moore traded to Buffalo.
    — John Cassillo, Forbes.com, 12 Aug. 2026
Definition of traded
Verb
  • The luxury tax was collectively bargained with a tax utilized to constrain owners from overspending the annual threshold.
    — Barry M. Bloom, Forbes.com, 4 Aug. 2026
  • The league, through an eligibility rule bargained with the NBPA, closed the door to high schoolers starting with the 2006 NBA Draft.
    — Michael McCann, Sportico.com, 28 July 2026
Definition of bargained
Verb
  • Suffice it to say that the Kittrells could probably have negotiated much better deals with their creditors than 100 cents on the dollar.
    — Jay Adkisson, Forbes.com, 7 Aug. 2026
  • Former House Majority Leader Tom DeLay, who negotiated the 39 percent compromise, has stressed that Congress wrote the cap into law specifically to keep the FCC from changing it.
    — Cynthia Littleton, Variety, 6 Aug. 2026
Definition of negotiated
Verb
  • Our agent is capable of recommending optimal solutions that can be transacted instantly online.
    — Rob Green, Forbes.com, 30 June 2026
  • For decades, billions of dollars in advertising have been transacted on Nielsen ratings that tabulate how many people saw a TV program or commercial, and, also on how many people of a certain age or gender did as well.
    — Brian Steinberg, Variety, 9 May 2026
Definition of transacted
Verb
  • What matters then is the rate at which one is exchanged for the other, and that rate is set by architecture.
    — Sanjay Srivastava, Forbes.com, 12 Aug. 2026
  • Despite letters being exchanged virtually, the pace was glacial.
    — Ryan Lenora Brown, Christian Science Monitor, 12 Aug. 2026
Definition of exchanged
Verb
  • The high court dealt Trump both of the losses during the term that ended in June, striking down his executive order to end birthright citizenship and blocking his attempt to fire Federal Reserve governor Lisa Cook.
    — Isaac Arnsdorf, Washington Post, 7 Aug. 2026
  • Another judge dealt the backers of the measure a second loss by tentatively finding that their description of the measure, submitted for the official state voter’s guide, was misleading.
    — Kevin Rector, Los Angeles Times, 7 Aug. 2026
Definition of dealt
Verb
  • The government has been required by law for decades to protect migrant children who are in the country illegally without guardians, over fears they could be exploited, abused or trafficked.
    — Sergio Martínez-Beltrán, NPR, 5 Aug. 2026
  • In recent years, West Africa has emerged as a key transit route for cocaine trafficked from South America to Europe, with smugglers taking advantage of porous borders and weak enforcement in parts of the region.
    — ABC News, ABC News, 30 July 2026
Definition of trafficked
Verb
  • Bookstores needed a similar rehaul and every bit of Nike branding – on office, arena and stadium walls and hallways – had to be swapped in a no-swoosh left behind conversion to three stripes.
    — Dana O’Neil, CNN Money, 7 Aug. 2026
  • Reliever swap While these were two separate trades, Miami essentially swapped out Bachar for Vodnik in the bullpen.
    — Jordan McPherson, Miami Herald, 5 Aug. 2026
Definition of swapped
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