Contents -AUTHOR INDEX -BIBLIOGRAPHIC RECORD

Mawson, C.O.S., ed. (1870–1938). Roget’s International Thesaurus. 1922.

Class V. Words Releasing to the Voluntary Powers
Division (II) Intersocial Volition
Section IV. Possessive Relations
3. Interchange of Property

794. Barter.

   NOUN:BARTER, exchange, scorse [obs.], truck system; interchange [See Interchange].
  a Roland for an Oliver, quid pro quo [L.], commutation, composition; Indian gift [colloq., U. S.].
  TRADE, commerce, mercature [obs.], buying and selling, bargain and sale; traffic, business, nundination [obs.], custom, shopping; commercial enterprise, speculation, jobbing, stockjobbing, agiotage, brokery.
  dealing, transaction, negotiation, bargain.
  free trade [opp. to protection].
   VERB:BARTER, exchange, truck, scorse [obs.], swap or swop [colloq. & dial.]; interchange [See Interchange]; commutate (sub titute) [See Substitution]; compound for.
  TRADE, traffic, buy and sell, give and take, nundinate [obs.]; carry on -, ply -, drive- a trade; be in -business, – the city; keep a shop, deal in, employ one’s capital in.
  trade -, deal -, have dealings- with; put through a deal with; have truck with; transact -, do- business with; open -, have -, keep- an account with.
  BARGAIN; drive -, make- a bargain; negotiate, bid for; haggle, stickle, – for; higgle, dicker [U. S.], chaffer, huckster, cheapen, beat down; underbid; outbid; ask, charge; strike a bargain (contract) [See Compact].
  SPECULATE; give -, bait with- a sprat to catch a -herring, – mackerel; buy low and sell high, buy in the cheapest and sell in the dearest market; stag the market [London Stock Exchange], rig the market [Exchange cant].
   ADJECTIVE:COMMERCIAL, mercantile, trading; interchangeable, marketable, staple, in the market, for sale; at a bargain, marked down.
  wholesale, retail.
   ADVERB:across the counter; in the marts of trade; on the Rialto, on ’change.
   QUOTATIONS:

1. Cambio non è furto.
2. A business with an income at its heels.—Cowper
3. Bad is the trade that must play fool to sorrow.—King Lear
4. Traffic’s thy god; and thy god confound thee!—Timon of Athens
5. What news on the Rialto?—Merchant of Venice