Meaning of 'Change | Babel Free

Definitions

The stock exchange.

colloquial, obsolete, uncountable

Examples

“[M]y father […] was well enough contented to see⟳ that she did not behave ill to his children, that she brought him no more, and that she always had a plain dinner ready for him when he came from 'Change⟳ […].”

“Marley was dead: to begin⟳ with. There is no doubt⟳ whatever about that. The register⟳ of his burial was signed by the clergyman, tlie clerk, the undertaker, and tlie chief mourner. Scrooge signed it: and Scrooge's name⟳ was good upon 'Change⟳, for anything he chose to put⟳ his hand to.”

“They sailed from Deptford, from Greenwich, from Erith, the adventurers and the settlers; kings’ ships and the ships of men on ’Change⟳; captains, admirals, the dark “interlopers” of the Eastern trade⟳, and the commissioned “generals” of East India fleets.”

CEFR level