rate of exchange
Americannoun
noun
Etymology
Origin of rate of exchange
First recorded in 1720–30
Example Sentences
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In the inevitable trade-off between efficiency and performance, that’s a reasonable rate of exchange.
From The Wall Street Journal • May 16, 2026
The result was that many countries found themselves with currencies fixed at an inappropriate rate of exchange to those of other countries.
From Economist • Nov. 8, 2013
The rate of exchange increases throughout gestation as the villi become thinner and increasingly branched.
From Textbooks • Jun. 19, 2013
Geneticists Bentley Glass and Ching Chun Li predict that within ten centuries or so, at the present rate of exchange, the U.S.
From Time Magazine Archive
He recalled the inscrutable face of the tall white man behind the bar who had cashed it for him after a rate of exchange of his own grim devising.
From Where the Pavement Ends by Russell, John
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