moneychanger
Americannoun
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a person whose business is the exchange of currency, usually of different countries, at a fixed or official rate.
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a portable device consisting of conjoined vertical tubes for holding coins of different sizes and a mechanism for dispensing change, usually having a clip for attachment to a belt.
noun
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a person engaged in the business of exchanging currencies or money
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a machine for dispensing coins
Etymology
Origin of moneychanger
Middle English word dating back to 1350–1400; see origin at money, changer
Example Sentences
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People look at the exchange rate at a moneychanger displaying a poster of U.S. dollar bill, Chinese Yuan and Malaysia Ringgit in Singapore August 24, 2015.
From Reuters • Apr. 21, 2022
A few stalls away, moneychanger Bashir Moalim Mohamed opens a huge safe packed with $10,000 worth of Somalia shillings.
From Time Magazine Archive
A bank, says he, is not first of all "the table or counter of a moneychanger" as Webster's New Collegiate Dictionary lists it.
From Time Magazine Archive
Rounding up $4,000, the refugee began his Beirut career as a moneychanger in a dingy fourth-floor office, amassed enough capital in three years of flamboyant dealings to start Intra in 1951.
From Time Magazine Archive
There was a rich Goth, who, in Rome or Ravenna, had married the daughter of some Italian moneychanger, and had soon learned to do business like his father-in-law, and reckon his profits by thousands.
From A Struggle for Rome, Vol. 2 (of 3) by Dahn, Felix
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