exchange

noun

An act of exchanging or trading.

A place for conducting trading.

(finance) The difference between the values of money in different places.

A conversation.

(telephony) The portion of a telephone number that represents (or formerly represented) a central office.

(telephony) A central office.

(telephony) Ellipsis of telephone exchange.

(biochemistry) The transfer of substances or elements like gas, amino-acids, ions etc. sometimes through a surface like a membrane.

(chess) The loss of one piece and associated capture of another.

(usually with "the") The loss of a minor piece (typically a bishop or knight) and associated capture of the more advantageous rook.

(law, England and Wales, Northern Ireland) Clipping of exchange of contracts. [(law, England and Wales, Northern Ireland) The act of exchanging contracts.]

(obsolete) The thing given or received in return; especially, a publication exchanged for another.

verb

(transitive) To trade or barter.

(transitive, figurative) To mutually direct at each other.

(transitive) To replace with, as a substitute.

(transitive) To recommend and get recommendations.

(law, England and Wales, Northern Ireland) Clipping of exchange contracts. [(law, England and Wales, Northern Ireland, idiomatic) To formally contract to purchase, sell or otherwise be party to a disposition of an estate in land; usually requiring the payment of a deposit by one of the parties.]

Roots

cambiarechang- · Latin · to barter

Synonyms for exchange

interchangen swapn counterchangev bartern substitutionn changen replacev tradingn commutationn commutev switchn substituten boursen reciprocalityn transfern reciprocationn

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