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exchange

[iks-cheynj]

verb (used with object)

to give up (something) for something else; part with for some equivalent; change for another.

to replace (returned merchandise) with an equivalent or something else: Most stores will allow the purchaser to exchange goods.

to give and receive reciprocally; interchange: to exchange blows; to exchange gifts.

to part with in return for some equivalent; transfer for a recompense; barter: to exchange goods with foreign countries.

Chess. to capture (an enemy piece) in return for a capture by the opponent generally of pieces of equal value.

verb (used without object)

to make an exchange; engage in bartering, replacing, or substituting one thing for another.

to pass or be taken in exchange or as an equivalent.

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noun

the act, process, or an instance of exchanging: The contesting nations arranged for an exchange of prisoners; money in exchange for services.

something that is given or received in exchange or substitution for something else: The car was a fair exchange.

10.

a place for buying and selling commodities, securities, etc., typically open only to members.

11.

a central office or central station: a telephone exchange.

12.

the method or system by which debits and credits in different places are settled without the actual transfer of money, by means of bills of exchange representing money values.

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13.

the discharge of obligations in different places by the transfer of credits.

14.

the amount or percentage charged for exchanging money, collecting a draft, etc.

15.

the reciprocal transfer of equivalent sums of money, as in the currencies of two different countries.

16.

the giving or receiving of a sum of money in one place for a bill ordering the payment of an equivalent sum in another.

17.

exchange rate.

18.

the amount of the difference in value between two or more currencies, or between the values of the same currency at two or more places.

19.

the checks, drafts, etc., exchanged at a clearinghouse.

20.

Chess. a reciprocal capture of pieces of equivalent value by opponents in a single series of moves.

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Origin:
1250–1300; (v.) Middle English eschaungen < Anglo-French eschaungier < Vulgar Latin *excambiāre (see ex-, change); (noun) Middle English eschaunge < Anglo-French (Old French eschange), derivative of eschaungier; modern spelling with ex- on the model of ex-¹

Related forms

ex·chang·er, noun

pre·ex·change, verb (used with object), -changed, -chang·ing.

re·ex·change, verb, -changed, -chang·ing.

un·ex·changed, adjective

Synonyms
1. interchange, commute, barter, trade, swap. 8. interchange, trade, traffic, business, commerce, barter. 10. market.

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Example Sentences

Miller in an e-mail exchange that he could face a criminal charge if he rehung the poster or another one similar to it.

Trade, exchange rates, budget balances and interest rates.

The alveoli are where the crucial gas exchange takes place.

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Miller in an e-mail exchange that he could face a criminal charge if he rehung the poster or another one similar to it.

Trade, exchange rates, budget balances and interest rates.

The alveoli are where the crucial gas exchange takes place.

Identical twins also can exchange these microchimeric cells through their shared placenta.

So even though it is still a negative comment about someone, it isn't directly hurtful to the parties involved in the exchange.

And menu prices shredded by the favorable exchange rate.

Dinar values also bear little correlation to published exchange rates.

Academe is supposed to be a place where the free exchange of ideas can occur.

One is change in the nominal dollar-yuan exchange rate.

If for any reason your purchase does not satisfy you, simply return the item for a prompt full refund or exchange.

In the absence of convection, a slow exchange of air occurs across the tropospheric-stratospheric border.

The boats have exchange offices with acceptable rates for your leftover cash.

If ever there would be a sourse it would be seed savers exchange and they have no info at this time.

We have the technology to move to a more efficient, convenient, freely flowing medium of exchange.

Children play games, sing songs, and exchange gifts.

Yet, regardless of the perpetual exchange of molecules, our memories remain stable.

The hostilities have also scared away tourists-one of the nation's largest sources of foreign exchange.

Sponsor will not redeem winner's existing frequent flyer miles in exchange for cash.

The world's benchmark stock exchange shuts down for an hour because of computer trouble.

All such contracts could be redenominated in a new lira, at a one-for-one exchange rate with the euro.

Insulation reduces the exchange of heat through a surface such as a wall, attic, duct or roof.

But there is also a two-unit form which cannot perform the function in gas exchange.

News from abroad unquestionably played a big part in the strong undertone to the foreign exchange market of yesterday.

Retail sales, producer prices, wages and exchange rates.

How free exchange between people increases prosperity and trust.

See if they or the store the pots came from will let you exchange for something else.

The objective of using diabetic exchange lists is to maintain the proper balance of carbohydrates, proteins, and fats.

Instead, he posits, different regions must exchange information before consciousness can arise.

Others deal locally, meeting in cafés to exchange cash for commodity.

The exchange rate floating bands will remain the same as previously announced in the inter-bank foreign exchange market.

Through a cycle of radiation absorption and re-emission, the atmosphere and the underlying surface exchange energy.

Partly there is a need to acquaint readers of the book with the basic principles of a bill of exchange.

Friends and family gather to feast and exchange gifts.

Two prominent defenders of science exchange their views on how scientists ought to approach religion and its followers.

One late night he found himself about to exchange blows with a young prisoner over some dispute long since forgotten.

Researchers have discovered an underworld of genetic exchange among bacteria, one more vast than previously imagined.

But after three months of negotiations, the company agreed to release the beasts in exchange for replicas.

Battery exchange programs could also work for people without convenient access to charging stations.

But instead of trading music, users exchange pictures of people sans clothing.

Exchange bags among the groups so that every student has another student's bag.

The exchange does not signal the end of the case, however.

They discovered bullet shell casings on the ground and learned of a recent exchange of gunfire between thieves and a guard.

We must have some well defined process/ mechanism/ protocol for such information exchange and that should happen fast.

Ocean mixing also strongly affects the exchange of heat and gases, such as carbon dioxide, between the atmosphere and the ocean.

They then reproduce and exchange genes with other microbial.

One recent exchange listing, for example, showed one dinar as equivalent to.

Find a school within another region of the country with which to exchange information and compare functional regions.

The quantum view would describe this in terms of an exchange of virtual photons by the two particles.

The sidewalks teem with a minibazaar of currency exchange booths and men selling satellite telephone calls.

If the polarity and frequency is compatible, the exchange and/or transfer take place.

Regroup, follow the catch line back to the cat, exchange wild-eyed grins.

Carbon cycle, in biology, the exchange of carbon between living organisms and the nonliving environment.

Pizarro said he'd set the king free in exchange for a roomful of gold.

Collapse of the lungs forces air away from the alveoli, where gas exchange between the lungs and blood occurs.

They also have a secret hiding place to exchange the notes.

Battery exchange stations are already in operation in some countries.

The timber baron's wife, an ample middle-aged woman, enters the office and listens to the exchange.

Limiting the political power of doling out favors and tax breaks in exchange for votes diminishes the power of lobbyists.

Exchange the false right hand for a left hand-or a prosthetic foot-and the brain does not buy.

Perhaps an exchange of oceanic oxygen has maintained atmospheric oxygen levels.

If that's the stick then the carrot is the reward of eternal bliss in exchange for absolute obedience.

Victims meet online, exchange the best methods and may even make a pact.

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World English Dictionary

exchange (ɪksˈtʃeɪndʒ)

—vb
1.	(tr) to give up, part with, or transfer (one thing) for an equivalent: to exchange gifts; to exchange francs for dollars
2.	(tr) to give and receive (information, ideas, etc); interchange
3.	(tr) to replace (one thing) with another, esp to replace unsatisfactory goods
4.	to transfer or hand over (goods) in return for the equivalent value in kind rather than in money; barter; trade
5.	(tr) chess to capture and surrender (pieces, usually of the same value) in a single sequence of moves

—n
6.	the act or process of exchanging
7.	a. anything given or received as an equivalent, replacement, or substitute for something else
	b. (as modifier): an exchange student
8.	an argument or quarrel; altercation: the two men had a bitter exchange
9.	Also called: telephone exchange a switching centre in which telephone lines are interconnected
10.	a. a place where securities or commodities are sold, bought, or traded, esp by brokers or merchants: a stock exchange; a corn exchange
	b. (as modifier): an exchange broker
11.	a. the system by which commercial debts between parties in different places are settled by commercial documents, esp bills of exchange, instead of by direct payment of money
	b. the percentage or fee charged for accepting payment in this manner
12.	a transfer or interchange of sums of money of equivalent value, as between different national currencies or different issues of the same currency
13.	(often plural) the cheques, drafts, bills, etc, exchanged or settled between banks in a clearing house
14.	chess the capture by both players of pieces of equal value, usually on consecutive moves
15.	chess lose the exchange to lose a rook in return for a bishop or knight
16.	chess win the exchange to win a rook in return for a bishop or knight
17.	med another word for transfusion
18.	physics a process in which a particle is transferred between two nucleons, such as the transfer of a meson between two nucleons

[C14: from Anglo-French eschaungier, from Vulgar Latin excambiāre (unattested), from Latin cambīre to barter]

ex'changeable

—*adj*

exchangea'bility

—n

ex'changeably

—*adv*

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Word Origin & History

exchange

late 14c., from Anglo-Fr. eschaunge, from O.Fr. eschangier, from V.L. *excambiare, from L. ex- "out" + cambire "barter" (see change). Sense of merchants or lenders meeting to exchange bills of debt led to meaning "building for mercantile business" (1580s). Related: Exchanged; exchanging.

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Medical Dictionary

exchange ex·change (ĭks-chānj')
v. ex·changed, ex·chang·ing, ex·chang·es
To substitute one thing for another. n.
The act of substituting one thing for another.

American Heritage

Idioms & Phrases

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