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exchange

/ɛksˈtʃeɪndʒ/noun

The act of giving one thing and receiving another in return; a trade.

Example sentence

  • We made an exchange: my old bike for his skateboard.

'In exchange for' is the pattern. Also a place of trading, as in stock exchange, and a testy back-and-forth: 'a heated exchange'.

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