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Exchange   /ɪkstʃˈeɪndʒ/   Listen
Exchange

noun
1.
Chemical process in which one atom or ion or group changes places with another.
2.
A mutual expression of views (especially an unpleasant one).
3.
The act of changing one thing for another thing.  Synonym: interchange.  "There was an interchange of prisoners"
4.
The act of giving something in return for something received.
5.
A workplace that serves as a telecommunications facility where lines from telephones can be connected together to permit communication.  Synonyms: central, telephone exchange.
6.
A workplace for buying and selling; open only to members.
7.
(sports) an unbroken sequence of several successive strokes.  Synonym: rally.
8.
Reciprocal transfer of equivalent sums of money (especially the currencies of different countries).  Synonym: interchange.
9.
The act of putting one thing or person in the place of another:.  Synonyms: commutation, substitution.
10.
(chess) gaining (or losing) a rook in return for a knight or bishop.
11.
(chess) the capture by both players (usually on consecutive moves) of pieces of equal value.
verb
(past & past part. exchanged; pres. part. exchanging)
1.
Give to, and receive from, one another.  Synonyms: change, interchange.  "We have been exchanging letters for a year"
2.
Exchange or replace with another, usually of the same kind or category.  Synonyms: change, commute, convert.  "He changed his name" , "Convert centimeters into inches" , "Convert holdings into shares"
3.
Change over, change around, as to a new order or sequence.  Synonyms: switch, switch over.
4.
Hand over one and receive another, approximately equivalent.  "Exchange employees between branches of the company"
5.
Put in the place of another; switch seemingly equivalent items.  Synonyms: interchange, replace, substitute.  "Substitute regular milk with fat-free milk" , "Synonyms can be interchanged without a changing the context's meaning"
6.
Exchange a penalty for a less severe one.  Synonyms: commute, convert.



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"Exchange" Quotes from Famous Books



... the merchants of the Portuguese inland town of Tette, on the Zambesi, were carrying on the slave-trade with unusual vigour, for this reason, that they found it difficult to obtain ivory except in exchange for slaves. In former years they had carried on a trade in ivory with a tribe called the Banyai, these Banyai being great elephant-hunters, but it happened that they went to war with another tribe named the Matabele, who had managed to steal from them all their women ...
— Black Ivory • R.M. Ballantyne
... motorboats put ashore and the boys tied them to stubs in the high bank, they all began joking Purt about his plunge into the river. The dude had been obliged to exchange his natty outing suit of Lincoln green for a suit of oil-stained overalls that he found in the cabin of the Duchess. He could not find his own baggage, as the boys with ...
— The Girls of Central High in Camp - The Old Professor's Secret • Gertrude W. Morrison
... reassure herself, she remembered that in a cross-hall she had noted the telephone, the wire still intact, as she knew, for the connection of the hotel was with that of the bungalow on a party-line of the exchange at Shaftesville, twenty miles away. If she should be really frightened, she could in one moment call up the ...
— The Ordeal - A Mountain Romance of Tennessee • Charles Egbert Craddock
... law is established that a child is not morally responsible for his acts till the twelfth year of his age (i.108. 8 ff.). When Kuru agrees to give half his life in order to the restoration of Pramadvar[a], his wife, they go not to Yama but to Dharma to see if the exchange may be made, and he agrees (i. 9. 11 ff., ...
— The Religions of India - Handbooks On The History Of Religions, Volume 1, Edited By Morris Jastrow • Edward Washburn Hopkins
... such liberty there was only one endurable limit, and that was the condition that no man should so use his own liberty as to lessen his brother's—and the liberty thus conceived we regarded as the supreme boon of human life, for which no other could conceivably be taken in exchange. And now came the new Teacher of Liberalism with a doctrine which, while it made us angry, also set us thinking. "Our familiar praise of the British Constitution under which we live, is that it is a system of checks—a ...
— Matthew Arnold • G. W. E. Russell


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