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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exchange student

Christine Lagarde was 17 years old when she left her home in northern France to study as an exchange student at an American all-girls school.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 31, 2026

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

From Salon ● Sep. 16, 2026

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.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jan. 5, 2024

Police in the US searching for a missing Chinese exchange student, initially feared kidnapped, have said he could in fact be camping.

From BBC ● Dec. 31, 2023

A senior girl, an exchange student from Germany named Monica Fassbinder, had a peculiar attraction to Cade Hernandez.

From "100 Sideways Miles" by Andrew Smith

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