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cambio

American  
[kahm-byaw, kam-bee-oh] / ˈkɑm bjɔ, ˈkæm biˌoʊ /

noun

Spanish.
  1. a currency exchange.


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There, he sought out a representative of the Drug Enforcement Administration and told him about the casas de cambio, the SARs and his employer's reaction.

From The Guardian ● Apr. 2, 2011

By August 2006, Woods had identified a number of suspicious transactions relating to casas de cambio customers in Mexico.

From The Guardian ● Apr. 2, 2011

He issued a number of SARs in 2006, of which 50 related to the casas de cambio in Mexico.

From The Guardian ● Apr. 2, 2011

In one square, the chief opposition presidential candidate, Rafael Caldera, head of the Social Christian Party, has a huge calendar ticking off the days until el cambio, "the change."

From Time Magazine Archive

I can't walk a stride without having this wretched cambio, the exchange, thrown at my head.

From Sea and Sardinia by D. H. (David Herbert) Lawrence

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