Definition of exchange

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Exchange (n.) To give and receive reciprocally, as things of the same kind; to barter; to swap; as, to exchange horses with a neighbor; to exchange houses or hats..

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Price :: Price (n. & v.) The sum or amount of money at which a thing is valued, or the value which a seller sets on his goods in market; that for which something is bought or sold, or offered for sale; equivalent in money or other means of exchange; current value or rate paid or demanded in market or in barter; cost..
Agreement :: Agreement (n.) A concurrence in an engagement that something shall be done or omitted; an exchange of promises; mutual understanding, arrangement, or stipulation; a contract..
Exchange :: Exchange (n.) The act of giving or taking one thing in return for another which is regarded as an equivalent; as, an exchange of cattle for grain..
Trust :: Trust (n.) Credit given; especially, delivery of property or merchandise in reliance upon future payment; exchange without immediate receipt of an equivalent; as, to sell or buy goods on trust..
Honor :: Honor (n.) To accept and pay when due; as, to honora bill of exchange..
Discount :: Discount (v.) To lend money upon, deducting the discount or allowance for interest; as, the banks discount notes and bills of exchange..
Reexchange :: Reexchange (v. t.) To exchange anew; to reverse (a previous exchange).
Market :: Market (n.) Exchange, or purchase and sale; traffic; as, a dull market; a slow market..
Commutation :: Commutation (n.) The act of giving one thing for another; barter; exchange.
Payee :: Payee (n.) The person to whom money is to be, or has been, paid; the person named in a bill or note, to whom, or to whose order, the amount is promised or directed to be paid. See Bill of exchange, under Bill..
Flat :: Flat (superl.) Lacking liveliness of commercial exchange and dealings; depressed; dull; as, the market is flat..
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..
Reexchange :: Reexchange (n.) The expense chargeable on a bill of exchange or draft which has been dishonored in a foreign country, and returned to the country in which it was made or indorsed, and then taken up..
Counterchange :: Counterchange (v. t.) To give and receive; to cause to change places; to exchange.
Excambie :: Excambie (v. t.) To exchange; -- used with reference to transfers of land.
Exchange :: Exchange (n.) The act of substituting one thing in the place of another; as, an exchange of grief for joy, or of a scepter for a sword, and the like; also, the act of giving and receiving reciprocally; as, an exchange of civilities or views..
Exchange :: 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..
Lamb :: Lamb (n.) A simple, unsophisticated person; in the cant of the Stock Exchange, one who ignorantly speculates and is victimized..
Chopchurch :: Chopchurch (n.) An exchanger or an exchange of benefices.
Bank Bill :: Bank bill () In England, a note, or a bill of exchange, of a bank, payable to order, and usually at some future specified time. Such bills are negotiable, but form, in the strict sense of the term, no part of the currency..
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