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
Etymology
Origin of cambist
1800–10; < French cambiste < Italian cambista. See cambium, -ist
Example Sentences
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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
And they can eventually find another cambist to buy.
From Time Magazine Archive
It was, no doubt, an actual instrument in constant use in the merchant's office, as much so as an almanac, interest-tables, a "cambist" and a copying-press, are now.
From Notes and Queries, Number 23, April 6, 1850 by Various
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