Translation for "sistema de cambio" to english

Sistema de cambio

noun

• barter system

Translation examples

barter system noun

Las lecturas de Billie se reducían casi enteramente a los libros con «tiras cómicas» que adquiría en grandes cantidades mediante un complicado sistema de cambio, incomprensible para su padre.
Billie’s reading was restricted almost entirely to comic books, which he acquired in wholesale quantities by some complex barter-system incomprehensible to his father.

Viven exclusivamente del producto de sus tierras y de la caza en el pantano, atendiendo a sus necesidades por el sistema del cambio de artículos, pues no ven una moneda de cinco dólares al cabo del año, y caballos y uniformes se hallan fuera de su alcance.
They lived entirely off the produce of their lands and the game in the swamp, conducting their business generally by the barter system and seldom seeing five dollars in cash a year, and horses and uniforms were out of their reach.