to exchange
274
1.8
- verb
- /ɪkˈsʧeɪndʒ/
:
intercambiar
- We should use the internet to exchange ideas and for professional discourse.
- exchange information
- exchange ideas
- exchange letters
But they came along and we would exchange information.
- But they came along and we would exchange information.
- And I guess that's the currency that they're going to exchange blood for sex.
- And, you know, we would exchange numbers, but I played quarterback.
- And all I did was the dollar value that gets exchanged every month or week.
- Anyway, I spoke with the doctor exchanged e-mail and whatever.
- It's just you and me exchanging value digitally.
- And who knows, we might just exchange numbers.
- Why would you exchange inferior things for something?
Examples
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Active learners typically exchange views, share research findings, and debate topics among themselves.
Academic text (2008) -
But they came along and we would exchange information.
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Can they even exchange it here?
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We exchanged information in a civil way.
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An agreement was signed through which South African wool would be exchanged for Japanese cotton textiles.
Academic text (1991) -
Villages in the area not only exchanged art objects, but also bought and resold entire associations.
Academic text (1999) -
Dave thought; he saw Doug and Jason exchange puzzled looks and shrugs.
Fiction book (1990) -
We decided to exchange gifts for the holidays this year.
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She offered to exchange her old shoes for a new pair.
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They plan to exchange their foreign currency at the bank.
Synonyms
∞
1.8
Put another thing or person in place of one that is broken
756
2.0
To change one thing or person for another
588
1.0
To give something and get something else in return
550
1.0
To give something and get something else of the same kind
228
3.7
Change money or measurements into another form
26
3.1
To trade goods or services directly for other goods without using money
16
4.4
Exchange a voucher like a coupon for goods or money
3
4.1
To exchange things so each takes the other's place
Antonyms
Phrasal Verbs
Compounds
35
2.6
A large place in New York where people buy and sell shares of companies
24
4.6
A U.S. government agency that watches financial markets and protects investors
21
3.2
The value of one country's money when you change it for another country's money
3
3.0
A way for people from different cultures to share ideas, traditions, and customs
- Specialized
2
6.1
A fund you can buy and sell on a stock market that tracks an index like the S&P 500
- Specialized
1
3.7
A place with machines that connects telephone calls for many people
- Specialized
1
5.6
A market where people trade standard agreements to buy or sell goods and shares later
- Specialized
1
3.8
The value at which one country's money can buy another country's money
- Specialized
1
5.2
A system where a currency's value changes because of buying and selling in the market, not set by the government
- Specialized
1
4.8
A market where people buy and sell raw materials like oil or grain to be delivered later
- Specialized
1
5.5
An organized market where people buy and sell raw materials, often for delivery in the future
- Specialized
1
5.4
A system where a government keeps a country's money at a set value, often linked to another currency or gold
- Specialized
1
5.8
A process that swaps charged particles in water with a solid to remove impurities
- Formal
A written order telling one person or bank to pay money to another at a set time
- 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
Energy that comes from tiny particles of the same kind swapping positions or states
- Jargon
A formal signing in a property sale when buyer and seller swap contracts and become legally bound
- Specialized
A treatment that slowly removes a person's blood and replaces it with donor blood
- Specialized
The price of one currency that goes up and down with market buying and selling
- Specialized
A plastic material that removes minerals or metals from water by swapping charged particles with the liquid
- Specialized
Tiny hard beads that swap charged particles in water to remove minerals
- Specialized
A system that fixes a country's money value to another country's money
- Specialized
A chemical change caused by light that makes substances swap parts
How Reciprocal
Surface Forms
Morphology
Etymology
Exchange comes from the same parts ex- 'out' and change 'to swap', so to exchange something is to give it and get something else in return. This shows the verb keeps the simple idea of swapping items.