Exchange

  • 1Exchange — may mean: * Trade or barter, the voluntary exchange of goods and/or services * Social exchange * Student exchange program or high school exchange * Exchange rule, from Mathematical Logic * The exchange (chess), the value difference between rook… …

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  • 2exchange — ex·change n 1 a: a giving of something of value (as real property) in return for something of equal value (as money or property of a like kind) b in the civil law of Louisiana: a giving of something of value in return for something of equal value …

    Law dictionary

  • 3exchange — ex*change ([e^]ks*ch[=a]nj ), n. [OE. eschange, eschaunge, OF. eschange, fr. eschangier, F. [ e]changer, to exchange; pref. ex out + F. changer. See {Change}, and cf. {Excamb}.] 1. The act of giving or taking one thing in return for another which …

    The Collaborative International Dictionary of English

  • 4exchange — [eks chānj′, ikschānj′] vt. exchanged, exchanging [ME eschaungen < OFr eschangier < VL * excambiare: see EX 1 & CHANGE] 1. a) to give, hand over, or transfer (for another thing in return) b) to receive or give another thing for (something …

    English World dictionary

  • 5exchange — vb Exchange, interchange, bandy mean to give a thing to another in return for another thing from him. Exchange may imply a disposing of one thing for another by or as if by the methods of bartering or trading {exchange horses} {the hostile forces …

    New Dictionary of Synonyms

  • 6Exchange — Ex*change , v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Exchanged}; p. pr. & vb. n. {Exchanging}.] [Cf.OF. eschangier, F. [ e]changer. See {Exchange}, n.] 1. To part with give, or transfer to another in consideration of something received as an equivalent; usually… …

    The Collaborative International Dictionary of English

  • 7exchange — [n1] trade; deal barter, buying and selling, castling, change, commerce, commutation, conversion, correspondence, dealing, interchange, interdependence, interrelation, network, quid pro quo, rearrangement, reciprocation, reciprocity, replacement …

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  • 8Exchange — Ex*change , v. i. To be changed or received in exchange for; to pass in exchange; as, dollar exchanges for ten dimes. [1913 Webster] …

    The Collaborative International Dictionary of English

  • 9Exchange — (engl., spr. Ekstschehndsch), Austausch, Umtausch, Wechsel, die Börse in London …

    Pierer's Universal-Lexikon

  • 10Exchange — (engl., spr. ex tschēndsch), Austausch, Umtausch; Wechsel, Umsatz; Börse (s.d.) …

    Meyers Großes Konversations-Lexikon