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• exchange of prisoners — reciprocal freeing of prisoners, freeing enemy prisoners in return for the release of one s own people being held captive …   English contemporary dictionary

• exchange — exchanger, n. /iks chaynj /, v., exchanged, exchanging, n. v.t. 1. to give up (something) for something else; part with for some equivalent; change for another. 2. to replace (returned merchandise) with an equivalent or something else: Most… …   Universalium

• exchange — ex|change1 [ ıks tʃeındʒ ] noun *** ▸ 1 giving each other something ▸ 2 angry conversation ▸ 3 change type of money ▸ 4 change places with ▸ 5 place to buy & sell goods ▸ + PHRASES 1. ) count a situation in which one person gives another person… …   Usage of the words and phrases in modern English

• exchange — I UK [ɪksˈtʃeɪndʒ] / US noun Word forms exchange : singular exchange plural exchanges *** 1) [countable] a situation in which one person gives another person something and receives something else of a similar type or value in return exchange of:… …   English dictionary

• exchange — [[t]ɪkstʃe͟ɪnʤ[/t]] ♦♦ exchanges, exchanging, exchanged 1) V RECIP If two or more people exchange things of a particular kind, they give them to each other at the same time. [pl n V] We exchanged addresses and Christmas cards... [pl n V] The two… …   English dictionary

• exchange — [c]/əksˈtʃeɪndʒ / (say uhks chaynj), /ɛk / (say ek ) verb (exchanged, exchanging) –verb (t) 1. to part with for some equivalent; give up (something) for something else. 2. to replace by another or something else; change for another: to exchange a …  

• exchange*/*/ — [ɪksˈtʃeɪndʒ] noun I 1) [C/U] a situation in which one person gives, does, or says something and another person gives, does, or says something in return a frank exchange of views[/ex] an exchange of prisoners of war[/ex] Russia supplied crude oil …   Dictionary for writing and speaking English

• exchange — I. noun Usage: often attributive Etymology: Middle English exchaunge, from Anglo French eschange, from eschanger to exchange, from Vulgar Latin *excambiare, from Latin ex + cambiare to exchange more at change Date: 14th century 1. the act of… …   New Collegiate Dictionary

• Exchange — may mean: * Trade or barter, the voluntary exchange of goods and/or services * Social exchange * Student exchange program or high school exchange * Exchange rule, from Mathematical Logic * The exchange (chess), the value difference between rook… …   Wikipedia

• exchange — vb Exchange, interchange, bandy mean to give a thing to another in return for another thing from him. Exchange may imply a disposing of one thing for another by or as if by the methods of bartering or trading {exchange horses} {the hostile forces …   New Dictionary of Synonyms

• Prisoners of Space — was a Dan Dare story that ran in the original Eagle comic from Volume 5, Issue 22 (dated 28 May 1954) to Volume 6, Issue 18 (dated 6 May 1955)). It was drawn by Desmond Walduck.ynopsisTransport ships from the Earth Venus run have been… …   Wikipedia