bureau de change
Americannoun
plural
bureaux de changenoun
Etymology
Origin of bureau de change
C20: from French, literally: office of exchange
Example Sentences
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Built near the Olympic Stadium, the accommodation comprised row after row of small wooden chalets complete with running water, and the site featured a post office, newsagent, bureau de change, hairdressing salon and a restaurant.
From BBC • Apr. 16, 2024
And euro adoption means visitors won't have to dice with dodgy exchange rates at a hole-in-the-wall bureau de change.
From BBC • Jan. 18, 2023
It’s further complicated by the fact that there’s no bureau de change that tells you how much public health to trade for how much political equality.
From New York Times • Jul. 14, 2020
Documents filed by the Italian prosecutors claim that $466m of that sum was then laundered through bureau de change and passed on to the then president, Goodluck Jonathan, and members of his government.
From BBC • Apr. 10, 2017
In the bureau de change there was a little knot of English, people, with naive, romantic, and honest faces, quite different from the faces outside in the street.
From The Old Wives' Tale by Bennett, Arnold
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