Exchange

/ɛksˈt͡ʃeɪnd͡ʒ/ · noun

Meaning

An act of exchanging or trading..

Definitions by Sense

1. An act of exchanging or trading.
2. A place for conducting trading.
3. (telephony) Ellipsis of telephone exchange.
4. A conversation.
5. (chess) The loss of one piece and associated capture of another.
6. (obsolete) The thing given or received in return; especially, a publication exchanged for another.
7. (biochemistry) The transfer of substances or elements like gas, amino-acids, ions etc. sometimes through a surface like a membrane.
8. (finance) The difference between the values of money in different places.

Example Sentences

All in all, it was an even exchange.

an exchange of cattle for grain

I'll help you out this time, depending on what can you give me in exchange.

The stock exchange is open for trading.

The old corn exchange has been converted into a music venue.

After a lengthy exchange with the manager, we were no wiser.

'Why bother with the daily grind when you can go to Mosul, get paid $400 a month, get a wife – and live an Islamic way,' went an exchange between two men overheard by a fellow passenger in a taxi. Rumour has it that a woman whose husband died fighting with Isis now receives a generous widow's pension from jihadi coffers.

The monarch and the prime minister meet weekly, currently on Wednesdays, to discuss matters of state. There is no one else in the room, and many former prime ministers have spoken about how much they have enjoyed the weekly exchanges.

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• exchanges
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• exchangest
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