foreign exchange

noun

1

: a process of settling accounts or debts between persons residing in different countries

2

: foreign currency or current short-term credit instruments payable in such currency

Examples of foreign exchange in a Sentence

Our country has to export more in order to earn more foreign exchange.

Recent Examples on the Web

India's foreign exchange reserves sit at around $688 billion after a series of interventions by the Reserve Bank of India since the war began to shore up the rupee. —Anniek Bao,lee Ying Shan, CNBC, 9 Apr. 2026

Mathew says that Latitude’s competition is traditional banks who facilitate foreign exchange transactions through legacy rails like Swift. —Carlos Garcia, Fortune, 31 Mar. 2026

The information and opinions discuss, among other things, the state of the balance of payments of the United States, the standing of the United States dollar in foreign exchange markets, and the state of international balances of payments. —Robert Goulder, Forbes.com, 30 Mar. 2026

The central bank also emphasized its $270 billion in foreign exchange reserves, aiming to ward off worries about its currency peg to the US dollar. —Kelsey Warner, semafor.com, 18 Mar. 2026

Word History

First Known Use

1623, in the meaning defined at sense 1

Rhymes for foreign exchange

• arrange
• derange
• estrange
• midrange
• change
• grange
• mange
• range
• strange
• interchange
• rearrange