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exchange

noun
/ɛksˈt͡ʃeɪnd͡ʒ/

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.

  1. derived from cambiō
  2. derived from ex
  3. derived from *excambiō✻
  4. derived from eschanger
  5. derived from eschaungier
  6. inherited from eschaungen

Definitions

  1. An act of exchanging or trading.

    • All in all, it was an even exchange.
    • an exchange of cattle for grain
    • I'll help you out this time, depending on what can you give me in exchange.

  2. A place for conducting trading.

    • The stock exchange is open for trading.
    • The old corn exchange has been converted into a music venue.

  3. Ellipsis of telephone exchange.

  4. ›+ 11 more definitions

    1. A conversation.

      • After a lengthy exchange with the manager, we were no wiser.
      • 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.

    2. The loss of one piece and associated capture of another.

    3. The thing given or received in return

      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.

    4. The transfer of substances or elements like gas, amino-acids, ions etc. sometimes through…

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

    5. The difference between the values of money in different places.

    6. Clipping of exchange of contracts.

    7. To trade or barter.

      • I'll gladly exchange my place for yours.

    8. To mutually direct at each other.

      • The opposing soldiers exchanged fire across the burning streets.

    9. 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.

    10. Clipping of exchange contracts.

    11. To recommend and get recommendations.

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Derived

1031 exchange, amnioexchange, anex, anion exchange, arbitration of exchange, banner exchange, bet exchange, bill of exchange, cation exchange, Columbian exchange, commodity exchange, cookie exchange, corn exchange, currency exchange, deuteroexchange, exchange editor, exchange interaction, exchangeless, exchange of fire, exchange paradox, exchange rate, exchange rate risk, exchange student, exchange symmetry, exchange-traded fund, exchange value, exchange zone, fair exchange is no robbery, foreign exchange, foreign exchange certificate, foreign exchange market, foreign exchange risk, forex, heat exchange, heteroexchange, in exchange, in exchange for, interexchange, ion exchange, ion exchange chromatography · +40 more

Vish — recursive loop

A definitional loop anchored at exchange. Each word in the ring is defined by the next; follow the chain far enough and it folds back on itself. Scroll to it and watch.

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A definitional loop anchored at exchange. Each word in the ring appears in the definition of the next; follow the chain far enough and it folds back on itself.

8 hops · closes at exchange

curated · pre-corpus. live cycle detection across the full graph is the next major milestone.

sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA