exchange
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6.0
- noun
- /ɪkˈsʧeɪndʒ/
- Specialized
- Telephone exchange.
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Examples
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Now, Doris, would you please contact the Chicago area telephone exchange supervisors.
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The Vienna telephone exchange says there was a call from Paraguay.
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- No, I actually used to work at the telephone exchange.
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Well, country telephone exchanges being what they are..
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The number is listed as a cellphone exchange.
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It was a London telephone exchange.
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The technicians monitored the activity at the local telephone exchange to ensure all calls were connected correctly.
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After relocating, she contacted the telephone exchange to set up her service in the new area.
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During the storm, many residents reported issues with their phone lines connected to the city’s exchange.
Synonyms
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4.7
A main building that connects telephone calls in a town
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3.7
A place with machines that connects telephone calls for many people
Compounds
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2.6
A large place in New York where people buy and sell shares of companies
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3.2
The value of one country's money when you change it for another country's money
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A U.S. government agency that watches financial markets and protects investors
- Specialized
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4.1
A way to change one country's money into another country's money
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3.0
A way for people from different cultures to share ideas, traditions, and customs
- Specialized
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6.1
A fund you can buy and sell on a stock market that tracks an index like the S&P 500
- Specialized
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A market where people trade standard agreements to buy or sell goods and shares later
- Specialized
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A place with machines that connects telephone calls for many people
- Specialized
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A market where people buy and sell raw materials like oil or grain to be delivered later
- Specialized
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3.8
The value at which one country's money can buy another country's money
- Specialized
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A system where a government keeps a country's money at a set value, often linked to another currency or gold
- Specialized
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5.2
A system where a currency's value changes because of buying and selling in the market, not set by the government
- Specialized
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A process that swaps charged particles in water with a solid to remove impurities
- Specialized
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5.5
An organized market where people buy and sell raw materials, often for delivery in the future
- Specialized
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The price of one currency that goes up and down with market buying and selling
- Specialized
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7.0
A system that fixes a country's money value to another country's money
- Formal
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7.5
A written order telling one person or bank to pay money to another at a set time
- Jargon
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A formal signing in a property sale when buyer and seller swap contracts and become legally bound
- Specialized
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7.5
A treatment that slowly removes a person's blood and replaces it with donor blood
- Specialized
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Tiny hard beads that swap charged particles in water to remove minerals
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A plastic material that removes minerals or metals from water by swapping charged particles with the liquid
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Energy that comes from tiny particles of the same kind swapping positions or states
- Specialized
A man-made material that removes positively charged particles from liquids to purify them
- Specialized
A machine that speeds up ions so they leave a hot gas called plasma after swapping electrons
- Specialized
A man-made material that removes negatively charged ions from water
- Specialized
A chemical change caused by light that makes substances swap parts
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Etymology
Exchange for telephones means a place where calls are 'changed' from one line to another, like swapping connections. So a telephone exchange is a building or system that links and redirects calls.