moneychanger
2
4.8
- noun
- /ˈmʌniˌʧeɪndʒər/
- There, in the Temple... he found people selling cattle, sheep and pigeons... and also the moneychangers sitting at their tables.
Examples
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If you recall, he threw the moneychangers out of the temple upon which they had him killed.
Blog text (32) -
Jesus only once became violent in the Bible, when he whipped the moneychangers.
Blog text (21) -
Throughout Beijing and Shanghai, moneychangers make their "services" available to tourists and foreign visitors.
Academic text (1990) -
Moneychangers at the temple?
Blog text (30) -
"Around the perimeter of the station were small shops and kiosks: cheap jewelry, fast food, newspapers, books: the moneychangers in the temple.
Fiction book (1999) -
He overturned the tables of the moneychangers... and scattered their coins.
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Bennie gave Vic Junior a look that would have sent a whole passel of Temple moneychangers scurrying for cover.
Fiction book (1994) -
In busy tourist areas, moneychangers exchange foreign currency for local cash to help visitors make purchases.
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The moneychanger gave me a better rate than the bank for my US dollars.
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When traveling abroad, it is common to visit a moneychanger to convert your home currency into the local currency.
Synonyms
17
3.9
A person or business that gives you one country's money for another country's money
1
6.4
A person or business that changes money from one country into another
How Formal
- UK
1
6.1
2
4.8
Surface Forms
Morphology
Etymology
The word moneychanger is made of money and changer, so it describes someone who 'changes' or 'swaps' one country's money for another. That's why a moneychanger is the person or business at an airport or bank that will change your dollars into euros.