See Also: ascendant(medicine)
ascendant(dictionary)
ascendant 2, adjective(dictionary)
ascendant 1, noun(dictionary)
barter(encyclopedia)
barter(2)(dictionary)
barter(1)(dictionary)
Barter(finance)
Barter(money)
BARTER(law)

ascendant 1, noun (oh) and barter(2) (iou)


ascendant 1, noun (oh)



be in the ascendant
formal to be or become powerful or popular
::a political party that's in the ascendant

barter(2) (iou)



barter verb. LME.
[Prob. from Old French barater: see BARRATOR.]
verb trans. Exchange (goods or something intangible, for Other goods etc.). LME.
Yeats Barter gaze for gaze. L. van der Post He..replaced it with what he could buy, or barter, from Somalis. C. V. Wedgwood The Scots bartered him to the English Parliament in return for payment for their troops.
b. Foll. by away. Dispose of by barter, part with for a (usu. mercenary or unworthy) consideration. M17.
verb intrans. Trade by exchange. L15.
F. Quarles With thy bastard bullion thou hast barter'd for wares of price. D. Livingstone We did not see much evidence of a wish to barter.
barterable adjective M19.
barterer noun E17.