Chapter Words Relating to the Voluntary Powers of Index by Roget's Thesaurus

3°. Interchange of Property

• Barter (Substantives, exchange, truck, interchange, commutation.

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.

• Purchase (Substantives), emption, buying, purchasing, shopping; pre-emption, bribery, co-emption.

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.

• Sale (Substantives), vent, disposal, custom.

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.

• Merchant (Substantives), trader, dealer, tradesman, buyer and seller, vendor, monger, shopkeeper, shopman, salesman, saleswoman, changer.

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.