Definition of exchange

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Exchange (n.) To part with for a substitute; to lay aside, quit, or resign (something being received in place of the thing parted with); as, to exchange a palace for cell..

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Exchange :: Exchange (n.) The place where the merchants, brokers, and bankers of a city meet at certain hours, to transact business. In this sense often contracted to 'Change..
Changeling :: Changeling (n.) One who, or that which, is left or taken in the place of another, as a child exchanged by fairies..
Excambium :: Excambium (n.) Exchange; barter; -- used commonly of lands.
Negotiable :: Negotiable (a.) Capable of being negotiated; transferable by assigment or indorsement to another person; as, a negotiable note or bill of exchange..
Exchanged :: Exchanged (imp. & p. p.) of Exchang.
Commute :: Commute (v. t.) To exchange; to put or substitute something else in place of, as a smaller penalty, obligation, or payment, for a greater, or a single thing for an aggregate; hence, to lessen; to diminish; as, to commute a sentence of death to one of imprisonment for life; to commute tithes; to commute charges for fares..
Stag :: Stag (n.) An outside irregular dealer in stocks, who is not a member of the exchange..
Metalepsy :: Metalepsy (n.) Exchange; replacement; substitution; metathesis.
Traffic :: Traffic (v. t.) To exchange in traffic; to effect by a bargain or for a consideration.
Inland :: Inland (a.) Confined to a country or state; domestic; not foreing; as, an inland bill of exchange. See Exchange..
Transaction :: Transaction (n.) That which is done; an affair; as, the transactions on the exchange..
Redraft :: Redraft (n.) A new bill of exchange which the holder of a protected bill draws on the drawer or indorsers, in order to recover the amount of the protested bill with costs and charges..
Permute :: Permute (v. t.) To exchange; to barter; to traffic.
Tommy :: Tommy (n.) A truck, or barter; the exchange of labor for goods, not money..
Lamb :: Lamb (n.) A simple, unsophisticated person; in the cant of the Stock Exchange, one who ignorantly speculates and is victimized..
Market :: Market (n.) Exchange, or purchase and sale; traffic; as, a dull market; a slow market..
Draw :: Draw (v. t.) To write in due form; to prepare a draught of; as, to draw a memorial, a deed, or bill of exchange..
Exchange :: 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..
Chaffer :: Chaffer (v. t.) To exchange; to bandy, as words..
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..
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