See Also: Exchange(medicine)
Exchange, The(finance)
Value in Exchange(money)
Exchange, gas(health)
Exchange(money)
EXCHANGE(finance)
ion exchange(medicine)
Exchange Value(money)
Gas exchange(health)
exchange(1)(dictionary)

exchange(2) (iou)



exchange verb. LME.
[Old French eschangier (mod. echanger), from e- EX-1 + changer CHANGE verb.]
verb trans. Dispose of by exchange or barter; relinquish (something) and receive something else in return; give up (a prisoner) to the enemy in return for one taken by them. (Foll. by for, against, with the thing received.) LME.
C. Day They had exchanged their regular jackets for black alpaca coats.
b. Obtain (something) in exchange for. L16-E17.
verb trans. = CHANGE verb 4. LME-L16.
verb trans. Give and receive reciprocally; make an exchange of. Foll. by sing. or pl. obj. with a person. E17.
Day Lewis He was for ever buying, selling or exchanging books. W. Cather Lou and Oscar exchanged outraged looks. J. Wain They never passed each other without exchanging a word or two.
verb intrans. Of money, articles of trade, etc.: be receivable as an equivalent for. L18.
verb intrans. Undergo or take part in an exchange; be replaced in an exchange; spec. (of an officer) pass out of a regiment or ship (into another) by exchange with another officer. L18.
Good Housekeeping Daisy, a 14-year-old who exchanged with a 15-year-old French girl.
exchanger noun (a) a person who exchanges; Hist. a money-changer, a money-dealer; (b) a device in which something is exchanged, spec. = heat-exchanger s.v. HEAT noun: LME.