exchange
/ɛksˈt͡ʃeɪnd͡ʒ/ verb B1- To trade or barter. · I'll gladly exchange my place for yours.
- To mutually direct at each other. · The opposing soldiers exchanged fire across the burning streets.
- To replace with, as a substitute. · I'd like to exchange this shirt for one in a larger size.· Since his arrest, the mob boss has exchanged a mansion for a jail cell.
- To recommend and get recommendations.
Plural exchange · He/she/it exchanges · Past exchanged · Past participle exchanged · -ing form exchanging
Verb forms
- Base form
- exchange
- He/she/it
- exchanges
- Past
- exchanged
- Past participle
- exchanged
- -ing form
- exchanging
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Instead of making friends and exchanging visits with our neighbours, who had at first been overjoyed to see a Roylott of Stoke Moran back in the old family seat, he shut himself up in his house and seldom came out save to indulge in ferocious quarrels with whoever might cross his path.
“American Exchange, Strand—to be left till called for.
Diana preserved a discreet silence, but she and Anne exchanged furtive smiles of guilty amusement across the table.
“I have had advertisements sent to all the newspapers, and one of my men has gone to the American Exchange, but he has not returned yet.”
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