exchange
Pronunciation: /ɛksˈt͡ʃeɪnd͡ʒ/
The English word “exchange” has 14 meanings listed here.
noun
- An act of exchanging or trading.
- A place for conducting trading.
- A central office.
- The portion of a telephone number that represents (or formerly represented) a central office.
- A conversation.
- 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.
- The thing given or received in return; especially, a publication exchanged for another.
- The transfer of substances or elements like gas, amino-acids, ions etc. sometimes through a surface like a membrane.
- The difference between the values of money in different places.
verb
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.
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