Word Finder - exchange

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An act of exchanging or trading.

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All in all, it was an even exchange.

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A place for conducting trading.

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The stock exchange is open for trading.

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A telephone exchange.

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The fourth through sixth digits of a ten-digit phone number (the first three before the introduction of area codes).

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NPA-NXX-1234 is standard format, where NPA is the area code and NXX is the exchange.

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A conversation.

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After an exchange with the manager, we were no wiser.

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The loss of one piece and associated capture of another

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The thing given or received in return; especially, a publication exchanged for another.

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The transfer of substances or elements like gas, amino-acids, ions etc. sometimes through a surface like a membrane.

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The difference between the values of money in different places.

The exchange student was growling at her.

No, nothing could explain the exchange she witnessed.

Your life in exchange for keeping the tumor I remove.

We visited the Stock Exchange and a steamboat.

This natural exchange of ideas is denied to the deaf child.

Yet Darkyn asked for nothing in exchange for freeing him.

What is one life in exchange for saving the mortal realm?

Their nonverbal exchange made Deidre smile.

We're just going to exchange vows.

Was she really going to free some prisoner in exchange for a trip home?

I heard it proposed lately that two young men should travel together over the world, the one without money, earning his means as he went, before the mast and behind the plow, the other carrying a bill of exchange in his pocket.

We offer safety in exchange for the use of your abilities to support our mission.

Carmen stopped at the corner, uncomfortable with the heat of the exchange, yet unwilling to interrupt.

He offered an exchange for a later getaway weekend at Bird Song for the man and his wife.

Quinn, who'd been silent during our exchange, spoke up, "Maybe Daniel Brennan can pull in some favors."

She dropped to her pillow, wondering if she was the only one who thought their exchange across the living room ended the quarrel.

Howie remained silent during verbal our exchange, looking form one of us to the other, content to let us orchestrate the production.

Their first and only exchange hadn't been pleasant and resulted in a deal made under duress.

She avoided looking at Gabriel, not at all certain what to think after their exchange and seeing him with another woman.

I only ask one thing of you, Kris, in exchange for doing your dirty work.

Will you take my soul in exchange for Katie's?

DeLeo, already bored with the exchange, got up and moved toward the door.

Only this time her focus spread out to other things; the arbor of forget-me-nots where they would exchange vows, the cake with its three tiers of cascading flowers.

Yet the tense exchange remained in her thoughts.

The United Nations World Food Programme was so inspired by this success that pilot programs for an exchange were launched in twenty-one countries.

It is the universal medium of exchange throughout China for all retail transactions.

Among the public buildings are a town hall, court house, corn exchange, and churches of various denominations, as well as a synagogue.

There are various commercial and trade organizations, the oldest and most influential being the Cincinnati Chamber of Commerce and Merchants' Exchange, which dates from 1839.

In 1893 Sir Henry Durand was deputed to Kabul by the government of India for the purpose of settling an exchange of territory required by the demarcation of the boundary between north-eastern Afghanistan and the Russian possessions, and in order to discuss with the amir other pending questions.

In the interval he was restlessly active in parliament in denouncing naval abuses, and was also, most disastrously for himself, led into speculations on the Stock Exchange, by which he was brought at the beginning of 1814 into pressing danger of total ruin.

At this moment a notorious fraud was perpetrated on the Stock Exchange by an uncle of his and by other persons with whom he habitually acted in his speculations.

The beginning of this shameful "subsidy policy" was the treaty of Fontainebleau, 1661, by a secret paragraph of which Sweden, in exchange for a considerable sum of money, undertook to support the French candidate on the first vacancy of the Polish throne.

Among the other public buildings are the guildhall, with Renaissance front, the corn exchange, the picturesque custom-house of the 17th century, the athenaeum (including a museum, hall and other departments), the Stanley Library and the municipal buildings.

The more conspicuous buildings are the cathedral, the exchange, the royal palace, now occupied by the captain-general, and the law courts, the episcopal palace, a handsome late Renaissance building (1616), the general hospital (1456), the town-house (end of the 16th century), the picture gallery, and the college.

When the division of labour has been established, each member of the society must have recourse to the others for the supply of most of his wants; a medium of exchange is thus found to be necessary, and money comes into use.

This word has two meanings - that of utility, and that of purchasing power; the one may be called value in use, the other value in exchange.

Money, however, is in men's actual transactions the measure of value, as well as the vehicle of exchange; and the precious metals are best suited for this function, as varying little in their own value for periods of moderate length; for distant times, corn is a better standard of comparison.

In relation to the earliest social stage, we need consider nothing but the amount of labour employed in the production of an article as determining its exchange value; but in more advanced periods price is complex, and consists in the most general case of three elements - wages, profit and rent.

Gustaf-Adolfs-Torg is the business centre, and contains the town-hall (1670) and exchange (1849).

The chief railway station is Exchange station, which is in Salford, but has its main approach in Manchester.

State bonds were issued and public lands were sold to secure capital, and the notes of the banks, loaned on security, became a medium of exchange.

Several cessions were made between 1802 and 1824, but the state in the latter year remonstrated in vigorous terms against the dilatory manner in which the National government was discharging its obligation, and the effect of this was that in 1825 a treaty was negotiated at Indian Springs by which nearly all the Lower Creeks agreed to exchange their remaining lands in Georgia for equal territory beyond the Mississippi.

The exchange, the chamber of commerce and the clearing-house (one of the oldest in the world, dating from 1764) are united under one roof in the Palazzo del Commercio, opened in 1907.

The exchange, in the same street, was also completed in 1866, in a less ornate Italian style.

There are also theatres, a chamber of commerce, corn exchange, market-hall, custom-house, and the dock offices, a handsome Italian building.

Shortly afterwards Edward I., seeing its value as a port, obtained the town from the monks in exchange for other lands in Lincolnshire and changed its name to Kingston-upon-Hull.

The property was wholly disencumbered in 1847 by Robert Cadell, the publisher, who cancelled the bond upon it in exchange for the family's share in the copyright of Sir Walter's works.

A considerable business is done on the exchange, chiefly in local industrial shares, and the financial institutions number some fifty banks, among them branches of the Reichs Bank and of the Deutsche Bank.

An agreement on the basis of a cession of territory in the French Congo in exchange for a German declaration of complete desinteressement in Morocco was nevertheless ultimately effected.

This visit was followed by a return visit to Paris and a similar exchange of visits between the London City Corporation and the Paris Municipal Council, exchange visits Of the city corporations of Manchester, Glasgow and Edinburgh and Lyons, and a visit of the Manchester Corporation to Dusseldorf, Barmen and Cologne.