3°. Interchange of Property
- Barter (Substantives, exchange, truck, interchange, commutation.
- Purchase (Substantives), emption, buying, purchasing, shopping; pre-emption, bribery, co-emption.
- Sale (Substantives), vent, disposal, custom.
- Merchant (Substantives), trader, dealer, tradesman, buyer and seller, vendor, monger, shopkeeper, shopman, salesman, saleswoman, changer.
Traffic, trade, commerce, dealing, business, custom, negotiation, jobbing, agiotage, bargain, deal, commercial enterprise, speculation, brokery.
(Phrases). A Roland for an Oliver; a quid pro quo; robbing Peter to pay Paul; a blind bargain; a pig in a poke; taking for better, for worse.
(Verbs). To barter, exchange, truck, interchange, commute, scorse, traffic, trade, speculate, transact or do business with, deal with, have dealings with; open, or keep an account with; to carry on a trade; to rig the market.
To bargain; drive, make, or strike a bargain; negotiate, bid for, haggle (or higgle), chaffer, dicker, stickle, cheapen, compound for, beat down, outbid, outbargain, come to terms, do a deal, quote, underquote.
(Phrase). To give a sprat to catch a herring.
(Adjectives). Commercial, mercantile, interchangeable, negotiable; wholesale, retail.
A buyer, purchaser, customer, emptor.
(Verbs). To buy, purchase, procure, hire, rent, farm, pay, fee, repurchase, keep in one's pay; pre-empt, bribe, suborn, square, buy over.
(Adjective). Purchased, etc.
(Phrase). Caveat emptor.
Auction, Dutch auction, roup,
Lease, mortgage.
Vendibility, salability.
Dead stock.
A vendor, seller, etc. 797.
To sell, vend, dispose of, retail, dispense, auction, auctioneer, hawk, peddle, undersell.
(Phrases). Put up to sale or auction; bring to the hammer.
To let, sublet, lease, set, mortgage.
(Adjectives). Vendible, salable; unpurchased, unbought, on one's hands, unsalable.
Retailer, chapman, hawker, huckster, regrater, higgler, pedlar, cadger, sutler, Autolycus, middleman, coster, costermonger; auctioneer, broker, money-broker, bill-broker, jobber, factor, go-between, money- lender.
House, firm, concern, partnership, company, guild, syndicate.