exchange

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After the exchange, someone asked Price what the exchange was about.

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  1. transitive verb To give in return for something received; trade: exchange dollars for francs; exchanging labor for room and board.
  2. transitive verb To give and receive reciprocally; interchange: exchange gifts; exchange ideas.
  3. transitive verb To give up for a substitute: exchange a position in the private sector for a post in government.
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  • 'Whether the world would have been a gainer or a loser by the exchange is a question which every man must answer for himself, according to his own tastes and opinions; but the possibility of such a change in the course of events warrants us in treating what would otherwise be a strictly private matter as one of public interest. —  Lady Byron Vindicated
  • Separate the CallerID / Profile from channel and insure that the design of your exchange is agnostic to both the profile / directory service and whatever channel the users want to participate with. —  stuart henshall
  • My favorite Latin American exchange was in Los Angeles, California with a manacurist from Central America: her —  Home
  • So the exchange was a great political Rorschach: Each party saw their own talking points in the reflection of the back-and-forth. —  Wonkette » top
  • "… So the exchange was a great political Rorschach …" —  Wonkette » top
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market ·  communication ·  return ·  transfer ·  demand ·  price ·  flow ·  process ·  production ·  investment ·  transaction ·  response

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exchange:   exchanges ·  exchanging ·  exchanged
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Etymologies (3)

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  1. Middle English eschaungen, from Anglo-Norman eschaungier, from Vulgar Latin *excambiāre : Latin ex-, ex- + Late Latin cambīre, to exchange, barter; see change.

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  1. The verb does not appear in Middle English; the prefix restored to the orig. ex-; from Old French eschanger, echanger, French échanger = Provencal escanjar, escambiar = Italian scambiare, from Middle Latin excambiare, exchange, from ex, out, + cambiare, change, later Old French changer, etc., English change: see change, v., which is in part an abbreviation, by apheresis, of exchange.
  2. The prefix restored to the orig. ex-; from Middle English eschange, eschaunge, from Old French eschange, escange, modern F. échange = Provencal escambi = Italian scambio, from Middle Latin excambium, exchange, from excambiare, exchange: see exchange, v. See also change, n., which in some uses is an abbreviation of exchange.
 

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