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exchange English

Meaning exchange meaning

What does exchange mean?
Definitions in simple English

exchange Verb

— Two people exchange two things when each person gives a thing to the other person. They can exchange two things, or they can exchange a thing for money. The children can exchange toys so that each child has a new toy to play with.

exchange Noun

— An exchange is the act of exchanging. I did well in that exchange. Now I have three good new books, and I only paid a little money.

exchange

— noun chemical process in which one atom or ion or group changes places with another — verb (= change) give to, and receive from, one another Would you change places with me? We have been exchanging letters for a year — noun a mutual expression of views (especially an unpleasant one) they had a bitter exchange — noun (= interchange) the act of changing one thing for another thing Adam was promised immortality in exchange for his disobedience there was an interchange of prisoners — noun the act of giving something in return for something received deductible losses on sales or exchanges of property are allowable — verb (= change, convert) exchange or replace with another, usually of the same kind or category Could you convert my dollars into pounds? He changed his name convert centimeters into inches convert holdings into shares — verb (= switch over) change over, change around, as to a new order or sequence — noun (= central) a workplace that serves as a telecommunications facility where lines from telephones can be connected together to permit communication — noun a workplace for buying and selling; open only to members — noun (= interchange) reciprocal transfer of equivalent sums of money (especially the currencies of different countries) he earns his living from the interchange of currency — noun (chess) the capture by both players (usually on consecutive moves) of pieces of equal value the endgame began after the exchange of queens — noun (chess) gaining (or losing) a rook in return for a knight or bishop black lost the exchange — verb hand over one and receive another, approximately equivalent exchange prisoners exchange employees between branches of the company — noun (= substitution) the act of putting one thing or person in the place of another he sent Smith in for Jones but the substitution came too late to help — noun (= rally) (sports) an unbroken sequence of several successive strokes after a short rally Connors won the point — verb exchange a penalty for a less severe one — verb (= substitute, replace, interchange) put in the place of another; switch seemingly equivalent items the con artist replaced the original with a fake Rembrandt substitute regular milk with fat-free milk synonyms can be interchanged without a changing the context's meaning

Synonyms exchange synonyms

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barter change interchange trade swap replace substitute switch convert commute swop transfer conversion substitution replacement commutation shift stock exchange transact switch over trade-off telephone exchange sell market do business deal buy and sell vend switching reciprocation reciprocate rally permute foreign exchange compromise commerce clearing central bargain alter transposition transpose transform tit for tat tempt share reverse reversal revenge return

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Topics exchange topics

What do people use exchange to talk about?
Work and occupation Finance Financial transaction

Exchange, trade
Physical actions Arrange

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Grammar Case Semantically similar events

Each other

Conjugation exchange conjugation

How do you conjugate exchange?

exchange · verb

Examples exchange examples

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Simple sentences

He gave me an orange in exchange for a piece of cake.
The exchange rates for foreign currency change daily.
I'd like to know the exact exchange rate for yen.
Would you like to exchange links?
They would have gotten a better exchange rate if they had gone to a bank.
If you didn't have him to exchange letters with, you would be lonely.
Where can we exchange yen into dollars?
Where can I exchange yen for dollars?
Where can I exchange my dollars for pounds?
It is a system of direct exchange of goods.
Excuse me, but may I exchange this sweater for another?
I want to exchange this for a smaller size.
Can I exchange this with something else?
Can I exchange yen for dollars here?
Please exchange yen for dollars.
The rate of exchange is 145 yen to the dollar.
What is the exchange rate for dollars now?
Jim stayed with us while he was in Japan as an exchange student.
May I exchange this shirt for a smaller size?

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She grants the body's owner her greatest desire, and receives the owner's body in exchange.
We should exchange numbers.
To that end, the Steinem Publishing Group is offering what we consider an appropriate amount, in exchange for Ms. Stanley agreeing not to pursue the matter further.
What particulates were in the heat exchange?
I will exchange the box with juwels against 250,000 francs in cash.
Jewellery exchange. Today at 3pm in the Upton area.
Our society offers you the sum of twenty million in exchange for rights to the Devil's Field.
In exchange I give him the right to take whatever he wants from my room.
And what did he promise us in exchange?
When they return, they exchange clothing for potatoes.
The women raise the children in exchange for 15 pesetas a month.
His life, in exchange for hers.
Is that a bad exchange for a job?
A very bad exchange, Monsieur La Rue.
Neither Jews nor Arabs wanted to give up their special status in exchange for French citizenship.
All we suffered in this exchange was the loss of one terminal.
Get Parker at the Union, Read at the Exchange, Winslow and old man Harris at the Home Mortgage.
What if my importance is insufficient to force the Chinese government to make this exchange?
That is, you understand, at the present rate of exchange.
He grants us our lives in exchange for a living death.
In exchange, of course, for my I.O.U.
They earn a great deal of money. And they wouldn't exchange their position for any other honor.
If only you knew how willingly I'd exchange places with either one of them for your smile.
It is the custom of my country to exchange cards after a challenge.
Waiter, could you exchange this for a couple of spoons?
They also announced that they won't adjust the exchange rates. So an increase on the public tax is unavoidable.
The method of borrowing a person's body. is only possible if the owner of the body allows it. She grants the body's owner her greatest desire, and receives the owner's body in exchange.
We are settling everything in exchange for your word.
Until now it could not be determined when and how this exchange happened. And also the perpetrators are still entirely unknown.
What do you expect in exchange?
I'll give you new tickets in exchange for your old.
We must be extremely careful what goods we take in exchange.
Well, we could exchange it for some other pet.
I'd like to exchange this kitten for a canary.
I wanted to exchange this kitten for a bird.
I've followed your little exchange with great interest.

News and current affairs

Though this is partially offset by foreign-exchange reserves, Japan now faces massive disaster-relief costs - and this on top of its depressing demographic trends.
In August, the currency's exchange-rate regime was loosened slightly.
One such implication is that developing countries will have to substitute real industrial policies for those that operate through the exchange rate.
The secretariat should actively cooperate with the IMF to benefit from its analysis, notably regarding exchange rates.
The world-wide dilemma over exchange rate management is that when market pressure is not high necessary changes no longer seem so urgent.
CAMBRIDGE - Although I appreciate that exchange rates are never easy to explain or understand, I find today's relatively robust value for the euro somewhat mysterious.
But don't count on a stable euro-dollar exchange rate - much less an even stronger euro - in the year ahead.
The reasons invoked by Correa (legal concerns about how the bonds were issued in the 2000 debt exchange) were beside the point.
Ironically, flexible exchange rates help the very country that caused the crisis.
With Israel, the terms are ostensibly simpler: in exchange for a stronger US security guarantee, Israel would accept the establishment of a Palestinian state based on the 1967 borders.
Then the exchange took an even more chilling turn.
Just as China needs to allow the renminbi to rise, so Germany - whose current-account surplus exceeds China's both as a share of GDP and in absolute terms - needs a higher real exchange rate.
Sometimes, creditors agree to exchange the old bonds for new ones, which have either a lower face value or lower interest payments.
After several difficult years, the country managed to negotiate an exchange of outstanding bonds for bonds with a considerably lower face value.
Peter Kenen argued in the late 1960's that without exchange-rate movements as a shock absorber, a currency union requires fiscal transfers as a way to share risk.
It would seem that rebuilding confidence in the Federal Reserve and the Securities and Exchange Commission is economically more important than rebuilding trust in Citibank or AIG.
A country with a flexible currency can achieve that by allowing the exchange rate to depreciate.
The exchange rate remained unchanged: one naira was equivalent to one British pound.
Government expenditure exceeded federal revenue, despite rapidly rising foreign-exchange earnings from oil exports after 1970.
Yes, China continues to accumulate a vast fund of foreign-exchange reserves.
Moreover, the renminbi remains non-convertible for most capital transactions, China's financial markets are primitive, and trading margins for the exchange rate are still set daily by the monetary authorities.
In 1986, Nakasone went to Beijing at the personal invitation of Chinese Communist Party General Secretary Hu Yaobang and laid the cornerstone for a Sino-Japanese Youth Exchange Center, promising to forge future friendships with China.
The new transatlantic formula must be greater say in decision-making in exchange for a greater share of responsibility.

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