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part exchange

British

noun

a transaction in which used goods are taken as partial payment for more expensive ones of the same type

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With both Real Madrid and Barcelona duking it out for his services, le10sport in France says PSG would quite like to get the Catalan club’s striker Ousmane Dembélé in part exchange.

From The Guardian • Aug. 13, 2019

He had got it slyly in part exchange from the servants of a grand house some distance off.

From Pierre; or The Ambiguities by Melville, Herman

Then he praised the grey horse and asked if he was for sale, offering his own black in part exchange.

From Lysbeth, a Tale of the Dutch by Haggard, Henry Rider

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