exchange
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ɛksˈt͡ʃeɪnd͡ʒ/
ipa: [ɛkˈst͡ʃeɪnd͡ʒ]
ipa: /ɪksˈt͡ʃeɪnd͡ʒ/
rhymes: -eɪndʒ
Forms: form: exchanges
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.
Senses: examples: text: All in all, it was an even exchange.
text: an exchange of cattle for grain
text: I'll help you out this time, depending on what can you give me in exchange.
glosses: An act of exchanging or trading.
examples: text: The stock exchange is open for trading.
text: The old corn exchange has been converted into a music venue.
glosses: A place for conducting trading.
topics: communications
electrical-engineering
engineering
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
telecommunications
telephony
glosses: Ellipsis of telephone exchange.
A central office.
examples: text: The 555 exchange is reserved for use by the phone company, which is why it's often used in films.
text: NPA-NXX-1234 is standard format, where NPA is the area code and NXX is the exchange.
topics: communications
electrical-engineering
engineering
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
telecommunications
telephony
glosses: Ellipsis of telephone exchange.
The portion of a telephone number that represents (or formerly represented) a central office.
examples: text: After a lengthy exchange with the manager, we were no wiser.
text: '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.
ref: 2014 November 27, Ian Black, “Courts kept busy as Jordan works to crush support for Isis”, in The Guardian:
text: 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.
ref: 2022 October 25, Karla Adam, “King Charles III plays role his mother did in U.K. power transition”, in The Washington Post:
glosses: A conversation.
topics: board-games
chess
games
glosses: The loss of one piece and associated capture of another.
topics: board-games
chess
games
glosses: The loss of one piece and associated capture of another.
The loss of a minor piece (typically a bishop or knight) and associated capture of the more advantageous rook.
examples: text: Lady, as you are mine, I am yours, I giue away my selfe for you, and doat vpon the exchange.
ref: 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]:
glosses: The thing given or received in return; especially, a publication exchanged for another.
topics: biochemistry
biology
chemistry
microbiology
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: The transfer of substances or elements like gas, amino-acids, ions etc. sometimes through a surface like a membrane.
topics: business
finance
glosses: The difference between the values of money in different places.
topics: law
glosses: Clipping of exchange of contracts.
Derived terms: 1031 exchange
amnioexchange
anex
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 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
ion exchange resin
isotope exchange
key exchange
labor exchange
labour exchange
language exchange
link exchange
local exchange carrier
means of exchange
medium of exchange
mint par of exchange
multiexchange
needle exchange
nonexchange
part-exchange
part exchange
photoexchange
preexchange
prisoner exchange
private branch exchange
rate of exchange
reexchange
Starker exchange
stock exchange
Strowger exchange
superexchange
telephone exchange
Telex
telex
value in exchange
white elephant exchange