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.
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Tourism is a leading source of foreign exchange earned for the Caribbean country.
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Jacqueline Charles, Miami Herald, 3 Nov. 2025
Interest rate changes take time to ripple through the economy, often six months to a year, according to Dimitri Silva, Reams Asset Management’s managing director and head of global rates and foreign exchange.
—Rachel Barber, USA Today, 28 Oct. 2025
Bessent, who specialized in foreign exchange in a decades-long hedge fund career, organized a $20 billion foreign-exchange swap with Argentina’s central bank earlier this month — an unusual structure that bypassed the US Federal Reserve, which is typically the lead party in such arrangements.
—Daniel Flatley, Fortune, 27 Oct. 2025
These carried harsh conditions usually pushing the nation into recession even as foreign exchange accounts came into balance.
—Edward Lotterman, Twin Cities, 26 Oct. 2025
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Jacqueline Charles, Miami Herald, 3 Nov. 2025
Interest rate changes take time to ripple through the economy, often six months to a year, according to Dimitri Silva, Reams Asset Management’s managing director and head of global rates and foreign exchange.
—Rachel Barber, USA Today, 28 Oct. 2025
Bessent, who specialized in foreign exchange in a decades-long hedge fund career, organized a $20 billion foreign-exchange swap with Argentina’s central bank earlier this month — an unusual structure that bypassed the US Federal Reserve, which is typically the lead party in such arrangements.
—Daniel Flatley, Fortune, 27 Oct. 2025
These carried harsh conditions usually pushing the nation into recession even as foreign exchange accounts came into balance.
—Edward Lotterman, Twin Cities, 26 Oct. 2025
See All Example Sentences for foreign exchange
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“Foreign exchange.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/foreign%20exchange. Accessed 11 Nov. 2025.
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