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.”

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