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
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
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
The moneychanger rose immediately, and having ascertained that the coin was genuine, returned its proper equivalent by the customary mode of transfer.
From Harper's New Monthly Magazine, No. V, October, 1850, Volume I. by
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