Definitions for exchange

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exchange ex·change

Spelling: [iks-cheynj]

IPA: /ɪksˈtʃeɪndʒ/

Exchange is a 8 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 21 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 23 points.

You can make 109 anagrams from letters in exchange (aceeghnx).

Definitions for exchange

noun

1. the act, process, or an instance of exchanging:
2. something that is given or received in exchange or substitution for something else:
3. a place for buying and selling commodities, securities, etc., typically open only to members.
4. a central office or central station:
5. the method or system by which debits and credits in different places are settled without the actual transfer of money, by means of bills of exchange representing money values.
6. the discharge of obligations in different places by the transfer of credits.
7. the amount or percentage charged for exchanging money, collecting a draft, etc.
8. the reciprocal transfer of equivalent sums of money, as in the currencies of two different countries.
9. the giving or receiving of a sum of money in one place for a bill ordering the payment of an equivalent sum in another.
10. exchange rate.
11. the amount of the difference in value between two or more currencies, or between the values of the same currency at two or more places.
12. the checks, drafts, etc., exchanged at a clearinghouse.
13. Chess. a reciprocal capture of pieces of equivalent value by opponents in a single series of moves.

verb (used with object)

1. to give up (something) for something else; part with for some equivalent; change for another.
2. to replace (returned merchandise) with an equivalent or something else:
3. to give and receive reciprocally; interchange:
4. to part with in return for some equivalent; transfer for a recompense; barter:
5. Chess. to capture (an enemy piece) in return for a capture by the opponent generally of pieces of equal value.

verb (used without object)

1. to make an exchange; engage in bartering, replacing, or substituting one thing for another.
2. to pass or be taken in exchange or as an equivalent.

Origin of exchange

1250-1300; (v.) Middle English eschaungen Anglo-French eschaungier Vulgar Latin *excambiāre (see ex-¹, change); (noun) Middle Engl

Examples for exchange

I saw you in the exchange this morning—I saw you yesterday—and the day before.

Gift cards are sold at kiosks in shopping malls or even websites that catering to this exchange market.

They reached the office of Fouts, in the, latter street, just as the exchange had closed.

And what do you propose to give him in exchange for the solace that you take away?

Each time he mentions a story point or repeats an exchange of dialogue, he glances up to see if she's smiling.

exchange typewriters with me so I can have the same machine.

The evidence considered by the jury hinged on a 90-second exchange of words, violence, and gunshots.

Gross and an unnamed American intelligence agent were freed Wednesday in exchange for three Cuban spies.

In exchange for the increase in sales, the dispensaries pay the service, not the consumer.

But I was not content with the first view that had been afforded me at the exchange.