Thesaurus results for EXCHANGES

exchanges 1 of 2

noun

plural of exchange

as in swaps

a giving or taking of one thing of value in return for another exchanges of commemorative pins are common among Olympic athletes

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as in conversations

talking or a talk between two or more people we had a brief exchange with the pastor as we passed him on the way out of church

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exchanges

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verb

present tense third-person singular of exchange

as in trades

to give up (something) and take something else in return I'd like to exchange this sweater for one in a larger size

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Recent Examples of exchanges

Noun

With messenger Mercury trining Jupiter, the Greater Benefic — with Mercury in your communication quadrant and Jupiter in your amicable 7th house — social exchanges carry extra goodwill. —

Tarot.com, The Orlando Sentinel, 9 Mar. 2026 Council members traded sharp exchanges as amendments piled up. —

Devyani Chhetri, Dallas Morning News, 8 Mar. 2026 Everyday exchanges feel softer as romantic Venus kisses elusive Neptune in your 3rd House of Contact, which nudges you to speak from the heart. —

Tarot.com, Hartford Courant, 7 Mar. 2026 Guyana and Saint Kitts and Nevis are discussing cooperation on food security, technology exchanges and workforce training, Ali said. —

Jacqueline Charles, Miami Herald, 7 Mar. 2026 Prediction markets are exchanges where people can place bets on the outcome of almost anything. —

Scott Simon, NPR, 7 Mar. 2026 The Beast Industries spokesperson called on Kalshi and other exchanges to communicate their findings more openly. —

James Pollard, Fortune, 6 Mar. 2026 Global exchanges such as the London Stock Exchange are actively positioning to attract high-growth African listings. —

Maurizio Caio, semafor.com, 2 Mar. 2026 December’s expiration of enhanced subsidies on the insurance exchanges is now driving double- and even triple-digit percentage premium increases for roughly 20 million enrollees. —

Robert Pearl, Twin Cities, 1 Mar. 2026

Verb

Dorian Gray, the Victorian era’s proto-Clavicular, literally exchanges his soul for eternal youth and beauty—a move that the looksmaxxing community would seem to endorse wholeheartedly. —

Thomas Chatterton Williams, The Atlantic, 19 Jan. 2026 The group exchanges little looks. —

Dalton Ross, Entertainment Weekly, 16 Jan. 2026 Bessent insists the rescue isn’t a bailout because under the currency swap agreement Argentina exchanges pesos for dollars. —

John Cassidy, New Yorker, 20 Oct. 2025 Miami field goal After each team exchanges punts, Miami’s Carter Davis kicks a 41-yard field goal to get UM back within four of Louisville. —

Jordan McPherson, Miami Herald, 17 Oct. 2025 Tole works for a company that exchanges commercial frying oil and was parked in a loading dock area of a hotel. —

Kyle Feldscher, CNN Money, 6 Oct. 2025 Though The Wrong Paris exchanges the City of Lights for the Lone Star State, that doesn't stop Dawn from falling for Trey (Pierson Fodé), The Honeypot bachelor that the other girls are vying for. —

Christopher Rudolph, PEOPLE, 17 Sep. 2025 Legislators and lobbyists in suits chat with families while a city councilman exchanges first-name pleasantries with constituents, young and old, in line. —

Robin Roenker, Southern Living, 13 Sep. 2025 Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro (L) exchanges documents with Russian President Vladimir Putin (R) prior to the meeting with President of Russia, May 7, 2025 in Moscow, Russia. —

Robert Birsel shane Croucher, MSNBC Newsweek, 4 Sep. 2025

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Noun

Credit default swaps are like insurance for investors, with buyers paying for protection in case the borrower can't repay its debt.

— Seema Mody, CNBC, 10 Mar. 2026
There is a prosody to those mysterious terms bandied about in The Economist or The Financial Times, of liquidity and derivatives, operational profitability and capital expenditures, credit default swaps and enterprise value.

— Literary Hub, Literary Hub, 9 Mar. 2026