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silent barter
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silent
barter
(
uncountable
)
(
economics
,
finance
)
A system of
bartering
, once common in
Africa
, in which
traders
remain
silent
, either because they have no
language
in common
or because they both wish to keep
secret
and not discuss the
origins
of their goods (especially gold and salt).