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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Home Depot said foreign exchange rates negatively impacted the company’s comparable sales by about 0.4%.
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Melissa Repko, CNBC, 19 Aug. 2025
Challenges include high corporate tax rates, dividend withholding taxes and tight foreign exchange controls.
—Familyofficehk Contributor, Forbes.com, 18 Aug. 2025
The multiple crises of the Birr’s devaluation, surging inflation, a foreign exchange scarcity, and the 2020-2022 war in the northern Tigray region, only added to the underlying challenge of setting up in a relatively closed economy.
—Alexis Akwagyiram, semafor.com, 18 Aug. 2025
Those conversations, the court was told, showed the ringleaders discussing drug distribution, foreign exchange rates and cash flow, as well as screenshots of blocks of cocaine and wads of cash, rolled together using elastic bands.
—Daniel Taylor, New York Times, 13 Aug. 2025
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Melissa Repko, CNBC, 19 Aug. 2025
Challenges include high corporate tax rates, dividend withholding taxes and tight foreign exchange controls.
—Familyofficehk Contributor, Forbes.com, 18 Aug. 2025
The multiple crises of the Birr’s devaluation, surging inflation, a foreign exchange scarcity, and the 2020-2022 war in the northern Tigray region, only added to the underlying challenge of setting up in a relatively closed economy.
—Alexis Akwagyiram, semafor.com, 18 Aug. 2025
Those conversations, the court was told, showed the ringleaders discussing drug distribution, foreign exchange rates and cash flow, as well as screenshots of blocks of cocaine and wads of cash, rolled together using elastic bands.
—Daniel Taylor, New York Times, 13 Aug. 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 27 Aug. 2025.
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