exchange
verb
- to swap, trade, give items to receive other items
noun
- trading location
- gift trade
- trading event by exchanging of goods
- replacement of non-defective goods, in context of goodwill
- replacement of defective goods
- exchange, trade
Wiktionary
Pronunciation: /ɛksˈt͡ʃeɪnd͡ʒ/ / [ɛkˈst͡ʃeɪnd͡ʒ] / /ɪksˈt͡ʃeɪnd͡ʒ/
noun
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.
- An act of exchanging or trading.
“All in all, it was an even exchange.”
“an exchange of cattle for grain”
- A place for conducting trading.
“The stock exchange is open for trading.”
“The old corn exchange has been converted into a music venue.”
- Ellipsis of telephone exchange.
- Ellipsis of telephone exchange.
“The 555 exchange is reserved for use by the phone company, which is why it's often used in films.”
“NPA-NXX-1234 is standard format, where NPA is the area code and NXX is the exchange.”
- A conversation.
“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 loss of one piece and associated capture of another.
- The loss of one piece and associated capture of another.
- The thing given or received in return; especially, a publication exchanged for another.
“Lady, as you are mine, I am yours, I giue away my selfe for you, and doat vpon the exchange.”
- The transfer of substances or elements like gas, amino-acids, ions etc. sometimes through a surface like a membrane.
- The difference between the values of money in different places.
- Clipping of exchange of contracts.
verb
Etymology: From Middle English eschaungen, from Anglo-Norman eschaungier, Old French eschanger, from the Old French verb eschangier, eschanger (whence modern French échanger), from Vulgar Latin *excambiāre (from Latin ex with Late Latin cambiō). Gradually displaced native Old English wrixlan, wixlan (“to change, exchange, reciprocate”) and its descendants, wrixle being one of them.
- To trade or barter.
“I'll gladly exchange my place for yours.”
- To mutually direct at each other.
“The opposing soldiers exchanged fire across the burning streets.”
- To replace with, as a substitute.
“I'd like to exchange this shirt for one in a larger size.”
“Since his arrest, the mob boss has exchanged a mansion for a jail cell.”
- Clipping of exchange contracts.
- To recommend and get recommendations.