exchange
Webster Dictionary
the process of setting accounts or debts between parties residing at a distance from each other, without the intervention of money, by exchanging orders or drafts, called bills of exchange. These may be drawn in one country and payable in another, in which case they are called foreign bills; or they may be drawn and made payable in the same country, in which case they are called inland bills. The term bill of exchange is often abbreviated into exchange; as, to buy or sell exchange
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inland
Webster Dictionary
confined to a country or state; domestic; not foreing; as, an inland bill of exchange. See Exchange
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truck
Webster Dictionary
to exchange; to give in exchange; to barter; as, to truck knives for gold dust
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exchange
Webster Dictionary
to be changed or received in exchange for; to pass in exchange; as, dollar exchanges for ten dimes
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bourse
Webster Dictionary
an exchange, or place where merchants, bankers, etc., meet for business at certain hours; esp., the Stock Exchange of Paris
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cambist
Webster Dictionary
a banker; a money changer or broker; one who deals in bills of exchange, or who is skilled in the science of exchange
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commerce
Webster Dictionary
the exchange or buying and selling of commodities; esp. the exchange of merchandise, on a large scale, between different places or communities; extended trade or traffic
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exchange
Webster Dictionary
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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exchange
Webster Dictionary
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
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barter
Webster Dictionary
the act or practice of trafficking by exchange of commodities; an exchange of goods
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reexchange
Webster Dictionary
to exchange anew; to reverse (a previous exchange)
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otc market
(over-the-counter market, OTC market)
Princeton's WordNet
a stock exchange where securities transactions are made via telephone and computer rather than on the floor of an exchange
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over-the-counter market
(over-the-counter market, OTC market)
Princeton's WordNet
a stock exchange where securities transactions are made via telephone and computer rather than on the floor of an exchange
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big board
(big board)
Princeton's WordNet
the large display board at the New York Stock Exchange that reports on stocks traded on the exchange
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arbitrage
Webster Dictionary
a traffic in bills of exchange (see Arbitration of Exchange); also, a traffic in stocks which bear differing values at the same time in different markets
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barter
Webster Dictionary
to trade or exchange in the way of barter; to exchange (frequently for an unworthy consideration); to traffic; to truck; -- sometimes followed by away; as, to barter away goods or honor
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centrex
(centrex)
Princeton's WordNet
(CENTRal EXchange) a kind of telephone exchange
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reexchange
Webster Dictionary
a renewed exchange; a reversal of an exchange
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bank
Webster Dictionary
an establishment for the custody, loan, exchange, or issue, of money, and for facilitating the transmission of funds by drafts or bills of exchange; an institution incorporated for performing one or more of such functions, or the stockholders (or their representatives, the directors), acting in their corporate capacity
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usance
(usance)
Princeton's WordNet
the period of time permitted by commercial usage for the payment of a bill of exchange (especially a foreign bill of exchange)
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agio
Webster Dictionary
the premium or percentage on a better sort of money when it is given in exchange for an inferior sort. The premium or discount on foreign bills of exchange is sometimes called agio
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money-changer
(ˈmʌn iˌbæg)
Random House Webster's College Dictionary
a person whose business is the exchange of currency, esp. the exchange of one country's currency for that of another.
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switch
(trade, swap, swop, switch)
Princeton's WordNet
exchange or give (something) in exchange for
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swop
(trade, swap, swop, switch)
Princeton's WordNet
exchange or give (something) in exchange for
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trade
(trade, swap, swop, switch)
Princeton's WordNet
exchange or give (something) in exchange for
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swap
(trade, swap, swop, switch)
Princeton's WordNet
exchange or give (something) in exchange for
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pit
(pit)
Princeton's WordNet
(commodity exchange) the part of the floor of a commodity exchange where trading in a particular commodity is carried on
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bourse
(ʊərs)
Random House Webster's College Dictionary
a stock exchange, esp. the stock exchange of certain European cities.
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exchanging
Webster Dictionary
of Exchange
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exchangeably
Webster Dictionary
by way of exchange
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