English Explanatory Dictionary

exchange

English dictionary entry

Meanings

noun
  1. An act of exchanging or trading.
  2. A place for conducting trading.
  3. Ellipsis of telephone exchange.
  4. A central office.
  5. The portion of a telephone number that represents (or formerly represented) a central office.
  6. A conversation.
  7. The loss of one piece and associated capture of another.
  8. The loss of a minor piece (typically a bishop or knight) and associated capture of the more advantageous rook.
  9. The thing given or received in return; especially, a publication exchanged for another.
  10. The transfer of substances or elements like gas, amino-acids, ions etc. sometimes through a surface like a membrane.
  11. The difference between the values of money in different places.
  12. Clipping of exchange of contracts.
verb
  1. To trade or barter.
  2. To mutually direct at each other.
  3. To replace with, as a substitute.
  4. Clipping of exchange contracts.
  5. To recommend and get recommendations.

Pronunciation

/ɛksˈt͡ʃeɪnd͡ʒ/ [ɛkˈst͡ʃeɪnd͡ʒ] /ɪksˈt͡ʃeɪnd͡ʒ/ en-us-exchange.ogg

Word forms

exchange exchanges exchanging exchanged no-table-tags glossary exchangest exchangedst exchangeth

Etymology

From Middle English eschaunge, borrowed from Anglo-Norman eschaunge, from Old French eschange (whence modern French échange), from the verb eschanger, from Vulgar Latin *excambiāre (from Latin ex with Late Latin cambiō). Spelling later changed on the basis of ex-, with pronunciation following. By surface analysis, ex- + change.

Synonyms

wrixle barter swap truck interchange trade

Derived words

1031 exchange amnioexchange anex anion exchange arbitration of exchange banner exchange bet exchange bill of exchange cation exchange Columbian exchange commodity exchange cookie exchange corn exchange currency exchange deuteroexchange exchange editor exchange interaction exchangeless exchange of fire exchange paradox exchange rate exchange rate risk exchange student exchange symmetry exchange-traded fund exchange value exchange zone fair exchange is no robbery foreign exchange foreign exchange certificate foreign exchange market foreign exchange risk forex heat exchange heteroexchange in exchange in exchange for interexchange ion exchange ion exchange chromatography ion exchange resin isotope exchange key exchange labor exchange labour exchange language exchange link exchange local exchange carrier means of exchange medium of exchange mint par of exchange multiexchange needle exchange nonexchange part-exchange part exchange photoexchange prisoner exchange private branch exchange rate of exchange
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