Noun: exchange
| Singular | exchange |
| Plural | exchanges |
Sample Sentences
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All in all, it was an even exchange.
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an exchange of cattle for grain
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I'll help you out this time, depending on what can you give me in exchange.
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The stock exchange is open for trading.
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The old corn exchange has been converted into a music venue.
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The 555 exchange is reserved for use by the phone company, which is why it's often used in films.
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NPA-NXX-1234 is standard format, where NPA is the area code and NXX is the exchange.
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After a lengthy exchange with the manager, we were no wiser.
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'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. [2014 November 27, Ian Black, “Courts kept busy as Jordan works to crush support for Isis”, in The Guardian:]
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The monarch and the prime minister meet weekly, currently on Wednesdays, to discuss matters of state. There is no one else in the room, and many former prime ministers have spoken about how much they have enjoyed the weekly exchanges. [2022 October 25, Karla Adam, “King Charles III plays role his mother did in U.K. power transition”, in The Washington Post:]
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Lady, as you are mine, I am yours, I giue away my selfe for you, and doat vpon the exchange. [1598–1599 (first performance), William Shakespeare, “Much Adoe about Nothing”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act II, scene i]:]
Nouns inflected like exchange
soldier's woundwort,
Nicosian,
whopper,
greypate,
tactile sign language,
chronotrope,
Rosie Lee,
dissentient,
photoinactivator,
sulphonediimine,
coastal waterfall,
residuary devise,
bituminization,
nitrosonaphthol,
smṛiti,
geosphere,
backscreen,
mensuralist,
flocculate,
flocculant, etc. (List truncated at 20 nouns)
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. See: Middle English Nouns '
eschaunge', French Nouns '
échange', Latin Nouns '
ex'.