bartering

"I think there was a lot of bartering," captain McIntosh says, "trying to get good deals, where we'd get breakfast and tea included."

Russia has been accused of hoarding US citizens to us as bartering chips to secure the release of Kremlin allies imprisoned abroad.

Food comes from bartering with neighbors, or outlets like 99 Cents Only.

While her career marched upward, his meandered; he worked for her parents and ran a struggling bartering venture before he found the military.

Long dirt roads were once occupied by a bustling community that had its own bartering system and a lucrative oyster industry.