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exchange
English
- 🔊 (chess) the capture by both players (usually on consecutive moves) of pieces of equal value“the endgame began after the exchange of queens”
- 🔊 (chess) gaining (or losing) a rook in return for a knight or bishop“black lost the exchange”
- 🔊 reciprocal transfer of equivalent sums of money (especially the currencies of different countries)“he earns his living from the interchange of currency”
- 🔊 the act of giving something in return for something received“deductible losses on sales or exchanges of property are allowable”
- 🔊 the act of changing one thing for another thing“Adam was promised immortality in exchange for his disobedience”
- 🔊 a workplace for buying and selling
- 🔊 a mutual expression of views (especially an unpleasant one)“they had a bitter exchange”
- 🔊 chemical process in which one atom or ion or group changes places with another
- 🔊 the act of putting one thing or person in the place of another: "he sent Smith in for Jones but the substitution came too late to help"
- 🔊 (sports) an unbroken sequence of several successive strokes“after a short rally Connors won the point”
- 🔊 a workplace that serves as a telecommunications facility where lines from telephones can be connected together to permit communication
- 🔊 give to, and receive from, one another“Would you change places with me?”
- 🔊 hand over one and receive another, approximately equivalent“exchange prisoners”
- 🔊 exchange or replace with another, usually of the same kind or category“Could you convert my dollars into pounds?”
- 🔊 change over, change around, as to a new order or sequence
- 🔊 exchange a penalty for a less severe one
- 🔊 put in the place of another“the con artist replaced the original with a fake Rembrandt”
Spanish
- 🔊 cambiario exchange
- 🔊 intercambio exchange
- 🔊 canjear to exchange
- 🔊 permutar to exchange
- 🔊 descambiar to exchange, take back
- 🔊 cambiar to exchange, to trade in