Definition of exchange

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Exchange (n.) To part with give, or transfer to another in consideration of something received as an equivalent; -- usually followed by for before the thing received..

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Barter :: Barter (v. t.) To trade or exchange in the way of barter; to exchange (frequently for an unworthy consideration); to traffic; to truck; -- sometimes followed by away; as, to barter away goods or honor..
Trade :: Trade (v. i.) To barter, or to buy and sell; to be engaged in the exchange, purchase, or sale of goods, wares, merchandise, or anything else; to traffic; to bargain; to carry on commerce as a business..
Catallactics :: Catallactics (n.) The science of exchanges, a branch of political economy..
Exchange :: Exchange (n.) A mutual grant of equal interests, the one in consideration of the other. Estates exchanged must be equal in quantity, as fee simple for fee simple..
Assignment :: Assignment (n.) A transfer of title or interest by writing, as of lease, bond, note, or bill of exchange; a transfer of the whole of some particular estate or interest in lands..
Excambium :: Excambium (n.) Exchange; barter; -- used commonly of lands.
Convertible :: Convertible (a.) Capable of being exchanged or interchanged; reciprocal; interchangeable.
Counterchanged :: Counterchanged (a.) Having the tinctures exchanged mutually; thus, if the field is divided palewise, or and azure, and cross is borne counterchanged, that part of the cross which comes on the azure side will be or, and that on the or side will be azure..
Exchangeable :: Exchangeable (a.) Available for making exchanges; ratable.
Clearing :: Clearing (n.) A method adopted by banks and bankers for making an exchange of checks held by each against the others, and settling differences of accounts..
Redraw :: Redraw (v. i.) To draw a new bill of exchange, as the holder of a protested bill, on the drawer or indorsers..
Parley :: Parley (v. i.) To speak with another; to confer on some point of mutual concern; to discuss orally; hence, specifically, to confer orally with an enemy; to treat with him by words, as on an exchange of prisoners, an armistice, or terms of peace..
Transmit :: Transmit (v. t.) To cause to pass over or through; to communicate by sending; to send from one person or place to another; to pass on or down as by inheritance; as, to transmit a memorial; to transmit dispatches; to transmit money, or bills of exchange, from one country to another..
Commutation :: Commutation (n.) The act of giving one thing for another; barter; exchange.
Chop :: Chop (v. i.) To exchange; substitute one thing for another.
Excambie :: Excambie (v. t.) To exchange; -- used with reference to transfers of land.
Arbitrage :: Arbitrage (n.) A traffic in bills of exchange (see Arbitration of Exchange); also, a traffic in stocks which bear differing values at the same time in different markets..
Substituted :: Substituted (a.) Exchanged; put in the place of another.
Truckman :: Truckman (n.) One who does business in the way of barter or exchange.
Usance :: Usance (v. t.) The time, fixed variously by the usage between different countries, when a bill of exchange is payable; as, a bill drawn on London at one usance, or at double usance..
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