"Barter away" means to trade, exchange, or give up something valuable—often something intangible like rights, honor, or time—in return for something of much lesser value or for an unwise, disadvantageous gain. It implies a foolish or reckless exchange, such as "bartering away" one's freedom or reputation.
: to trade by exchanging one commodity for another : to trade goods or services in exchange for other goods or services. farmers bartering for supplies with their crops. bartered with the store's owner.
to push or hit something or someone away from you, with your hand or with an object: I sat on the porch batting away mosquitoes. Someone pushed a microphone into his face and he batted it away. Protesters advanced as police batted them off with their shields.
If someone wastes away, they become extremely thin or weak because they are ill or worried and they are not eating properly. Persons dying from cancer grow thin and visibly waste away.
To knock an object, usually a ball, away from oneself. The ball can still be batted away with one or both hands. It can be batted from a player's hands or batted away during a shot. To avoid by diverting the focus of a discussion.
There are two types of barter systems: bilateral barter and multilateral barter. Bilateral barter is the exchange of two goods or services between two individuals or companies. Today, examples of bilateral barter systems include the exchange of technology, weapons, oil, and grain between countries.
The barter system sustained early economies for millennia, and it probably predates recorded history. But, that doesn't mean it always works well. It has a lot of disadvantages that the invention of currency solved. Sometimes bartering is just plain impractical because it takes a lot of time and work.
People exchanged services and goods for other services and goods in return. Today, bartering has made a comeback using techniques that are more sophisticated to aid in trading; for instance, the Internet. In ancient times, this system involved people in the same geographical area, but today bartering is global.
Squander or waste little by little; wear down gradually. For example, She frittered away her salary on odds and ends and saved nothing. This expression was first recorded in Alexander Pope's Dunciad (1728): “How prologues into prefaces decay, And these to notes are fritter'd quite away.”
The term bona fide originates from Latin, meaning "in good faith." It is a general principle of law that emphasizes sincerity, honesty, and genuine intent in legal and business contexts. When someone acts bona fide, they are presumed to have acted without fraud, deceit, or intent to mislead.
Some of its definition and synonyms are: authentic, genuine, real, true, sound, legitimate, legal, pure, unadulterated, valid, proper, straight, lawful, acting in good faith, (sincerely) without intention to deceive.
It is an offence to commit certain types of "hooning" behaviour, including operating a motor vehicle in a way that deliberately creates unnecessary noise or smoke, unnecessarily accelerating or causing a loss of traction (for example, by doing burnouts or drag racing) or racing against another vehicle.
