Dictionary entry

Exchange

Pronunciation: /ɪksˈtʃeɪndʒ/

Pronunciation

/ɪksˈtʃeɪndʒ/

Myanmar Meaning

(n) လဲလှယ်ခြင်း (v) လဲလှယ်

Definition

exchange /Çks'tʃeÇndʒ/ n [C, U] ၁။ (က) လဲလွယ္ျခင္း။ ဖလွယ္ ျခင္း။ အလဲအလွယ္။ Is five apples for five eggs a fair exchange? ❍ a house exchange (eg for a holiday) ❍ The exchange of prisoners during a war is unusual. ❍ She's giving him French lessons in exchange for his teaching her English. (ခ) အျပန္အလွန္ျပဳျခင္း။ အတံု႔အလွယ္။ the exchange of contracts (ie when buying or selling a house) ❍ an exchange of glances ❍ an exchange of gunfire. ၂။ [C] အျပန္အလွန္ အခ်ီအခ် စကားမ်ားျခင္း။ ခြန္းႀကီးခြန္းငယ္ျဖစ္ျခင္း။ bitter exchanges between MP's in parliament. ၃။ [U] ေငြေၾကးလဲလွယ္မႈ။ What is the exchange rate/rate of exchange between the dollar and the pound? See also ERM, FOREIGN EXCHANGE ၄။ (often Exchange [C]) စီးပြားေရးသမားမ်ား အေရာင္းအဝယ္ လုပ္ရာဒိုင္။ the London Metal Exchange ❍ the Stock Exchange. ၅။ [C] = TELEPHONE EXCHANGE ၆။ [C] အျပန္အလွန္ လည္ပတ္ျခင္း။ be on/do/organize an exchange ❍ exchange teachers ❍ Sarah is going on an exchange to Paris to stay with Pierre, and he is coming to stay with her here in Scotland next year. v (က) ~ A for B; ~ sth (with sb) လဲလွယ္သည္။ ဖလွယ္သည္။ He exchanged the blue sweater for a red one. ❍ Ali exchanged seats with Ben. ❍ The warring factions exchanged hostages/prisoners. (ခ) တံု႔လွယ္သည္။ တံု႔ျပန္သည္။ exchanging blows (ie hitting each other) ❍ They exchanged glances (ie looked at each other). ❍ The two men exchanged greetings (ie Each greeted the other). ❍ I heard them exchanging angry words (ie quarrelling). ❏ exchangeable /-ǝbl/ adj လဲလွယ္ႏိုင္ေသာ။ Goods bought in the sale are not exchangeable.

Examples

  1. [exchange of] : The two sides agreed an exchange of prisoners of war.
  2. [exchange of] : We had a frank exchange of views.
  3. There was an angry exchange of letters between the two firms.
  4. [an exchange of fire/gunfire/shots] : There was an exchange of fire and three soldiers fell dead.
  5. [heated exchange] : Paul and Mark were having a heated exchange in the office.
  6. The abolition of exchange controls
  7. I met Laurence on a French exchange.
  8. The former corn exchange