cambist
Americannoun
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a dealer in bills of exchange.
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an expert in foreign exchange.
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a manual giving the moneys, weights, and measures of different countries, with their equivalents.
noun
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a dealer or expert in foreign exchange
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a manual of currency exchange rates and similar equivalents of weights and measures
Other Word Forms
- cambistry noun
Etymology
Origin of cambist
1800–10; < French cambiste < Italian cambista. See cambium, -ist
Example Sentences
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Cambist, kam′bist, n. one skilled in the science of exchange.—ns.
From Project Gutenberg
Warning: if some unforeseen development causes the dollar to take off on one of its occasional brief upward flights, the cambist and his clients will take a bath.
From Time Magazine Archive
Based on his own instinctive answers to these questions, the trader � cambist, to use the international term � must decide within seconds whether to sell tens of millions of dollars for guilders right away.
From Time Magazine Archive
And they can eventually find another cambist to buy.
From Time Magazine Archive
As to books, on this subject, they are in everybody's hand; but, there is one book on the subject of calculations, which I must point out to you; 'THE CAMBIST,' by Dr. KELLY.
From Project Gutenberg
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