Meaning of exchange | Babel Free

Definitions

1. An act of exchanging or trading
2. An act of exchanging or trading.
   countable, uncountable
3. A place for conducting trading
4. A place for conducting trading.
   countable, uncountable
5. Ellipsis of telephone exchange. A central office. The portion of a telephone number that represents (or formerly represented) a central office
6. Ellipsis of telephone exchange.
   countable, uncountable
7. A central office.
   countable, uncountable
8. A central office
9. The portion of a telephone number that represents (or formerly represented) a central office.
   countable, uncountable
10. The portion of a telephone number that represents (or formerly represented) a central office
11. A conversation.
    countable, uncountable
12. The loss of one piece and associated capture of another.
    countable, uncountable
13. The loss of a minor piece (typically a bishop or knight) and associated capture of the more advantageous rook.
    countable, uncountable, usually, with-definite-article
14. The thing given or received in return; especially, a publication exchanged for another.
    countable, obsolete, uncountable
15. The transfer of substances or elements like gas, amino-acids, ions etc. sometimes through a surface like a membrane.
    countable, uncountable
16. The difference between the values of money in different places.
    countable, uncountable
17. Clipping of exchange of contracts.
    England, Northern-Ireland, Wales, abbreviation, alt-of, clipping, countable, uncountable

Equivalents

Examples

“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⟳.”

“The stock⟳ exchange⟳ is open⟳ for trading.”

“The old corn exchange⟳ has been converted into a music venue.”

“The 555 exchange⟳ is reserved for use⟳ by the phone company, which is why it's often used in films.”

“NPA-NXX-1234 is standard format, where NPA is the area code and NXX is the exchange⟳.”

“After a lengthy exchange⟳ with the manager, we were no wiser.”

“'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.”

“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.”

“Lady, as you are mine, I am yours, I giue away my selfe for you, and doat vpon the exchange⟳.”

CEFR level