exchange student

noun

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.

Example Sentences

The first was 7-0 Belgium exchange student Gilles Dierickx when he was coaching at Chaminade in 2017.

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The book begins with a personal anecdote: as an 18-year-old from a small town in eastern France, Mireille spent a year as an exchange student in Weston, Massachusetts, where she discovered American food — and gained 20 pounds in the process.

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Knox was a 20-year-old exchange student in the university town of Perugia when she and her then-Italian boyfriend were accused of murdering her housemate, 21-year-old Meredith Kercher, who was found dead in the apartment they shared on Nov. 2, 2007.

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Xuande is the first to admit that his career is still really just starting out, but he's already played with a number of ways to present himself: as an exchange student with an accent in the comedy "Ronny Chieng: International Student," as the spirit of a Southern Vietnamese soldier in the horror drama "Hungry Ghosts," and as one half of a set of bada** twin enforcers in "Cowboy Bebop."

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Knox, the American former exchange student who became the focus of a sensationalized Italian murder case, has long been vocal about the ethics of using true-crime stories as source material in entertainment.

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