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verb (used with object)
1.
to put each in the place of the other: to interchange pieces of modular furniture.
2.
to cause (one thing) to change places with another; transpose.
3.
to give and receive (things) reciprocally; exchange: The twins interchanged clothes frequently.
4.
to cause to follow one another alternately; alternate: to interchange business cares with pleasures.
verb (used without object)
5.
to occur by turns or in succession; alternate.
6.
to change places, as two persons or things, or as one with another.
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noun
7.
an act or instance of interchanging; reciprocal exchange: the interchange of commodities.
8.
a changing of places, as between two persons or things, or of one with another.
9.
alternation; alternate succession.
10.
a highway intersection consisting of a system of several different road levels arranged so that vehicles may move from one road to another without crossing the streams of traffic.
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| interchange | |
| —vb | |
| 1. | to change places or cause to change places; alternate; exchange; switch |
| —n | |
| 2. | the act of interchanging; exchange or alternation |
| 3. | a motorway junction of interconnecting roads and bridges designed to prevent streams of traffic crossing one another |
| inter'changeable | |
| —adj | |
| interchangea'bility | |
| —n | |
| inter'changeableness | |
| —n | |
| inter'changeably | |
| —adv | |
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Word Origin & History
interchange
late 14c., from O.Fr. entrechangier, from entre- (from L. inter-) + changier "to change." The noun in ref. to a type of road junction is first recorded 1944.
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