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
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Etymology
Origin of cambist
1800–10; < French cambiste < Italian cambista. See cambium, -ist
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And they can eventually find another cambist to buy.
From Time Magazine Archive
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
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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