exchange

== English == === Pronunciation === IPA(key): /ɛksˈt͡ʃeɪnd͡ʒ/, [ɛkˈst͡ʃeɪnd͡ʒ], /ɪksˈt͡ʃeɪnd͡ʒ/ Rhymes: -eɪndʒ === Etymology 1 === 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. ==== Noun ==== exchange (countable and uncountable, plural exchanges) An act of exchanging or trading. A place for conducting trading. (telephony) Ellipsis of telephone exchange. (telephony) A central office. (telephony) The portion of a telephone number that represents (or formerly represented) a central office. A conversation. (chess) The loss of one piece and associated capture of another. (usually with "the") The loss of a minor piece (typically a bishop or knight) and associated capture of the more advantageous rook. (obsolete) The thing given or received in return; especially, a publication exchanged for another. (biochemistry) The transfer of substances or elements like gas, amino-acids, ions etc. sometimes through a surface like a membrane. (finance) The difference between the values of money in different places. (law, England and Wales, Northern Ireland) Clipping of exchange of contracts. ===== Derived terms ===== ===== Translations ===== === Etymology 2 === From Middle English eschaungen, from Anglo-Norman eschaungier, Old French eschanger, from the Old French verb eschangier, eschanger (whence modern French échanger), from Vulgar Latin *excambiāre (from Latin ex with Late Latin cambiō). Gradually displaced native Old English wrixlan, wixlan (“to change, exchange, reciprocate”) and its descendants, wrixle being one of them. ==== Verb ==== exchange (third-person singular simple present exchanges, present participle exchanging, simple past and past participle exchanged) (transitive) To trade or barter. (transitive, figurative) To mutually direct at each other. (transitive) To replace with, as a substitute. (law, England and Wales, Northern Ireland) Clipping of exchange contracts. (transitive) To recommend and get recommendations. Synonym: trade ===== Conjugation ===== ===== Synonyms ===== (trade or barter): truck, wrixle; See also Thesaurus:trade or Thesaurus:barter (replace with a substitute): interchange, swap; See also Thesaurus:switch ===== Derived terms ===== ===== Translations ===== === Further reading === “exchange”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC. William Dwight Whitney, Benjamin E[li] Smith, editors (1911), “exchange”, in The Century Dictionary […], New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., →OCLC. “exchange”, in OneLook Dictionary Search.