exchange student

American  

noun

• exchange students
  plural

1. a secondary-school or college student who studies for a period, usually one year, at a foreign institution as part of a reciprocal program between two institutions or countries.

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Noun Inflected Forms

• exchange students
  plural

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Example Sentences

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exchange student

He later visited Moscow as an exchange student, then returned to work in finance in the mid-1990s.

From Salon ● Sep. 16, 2026

Mary Millben first traveled to China in 2006 as an exchange student from the University of Oklahoma.

From The Wall Street Journal ● May 21, 2026

A second report came in on Saturday morning – but this time from France after an exchange student fell ill after returning home.

From BBC ● Mar. 17, 2026

Consider what happened to Daniela Shields, whose daughter Alli was an exchange student in Hong Kong in 2019.

From Seattle Times ● Oct. 9, 2023

His name is Ongah, and he is an exchange student from Kenya who is writing a dissertation at N.Y.U. on the French symbolists of the 19th cent.

From "A Confederacy of Dunces" by John Kennedy Toole

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