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  • English Word Exchange Definition The process of setting accounts or debts between parties residing at a distance from each other, without the intervention of money, by exchanging orders or drafts, called bills of exchange. These may be drawn in one country and payable in another, in which case they are called foreign bills; or they may be drawn and made payable in the same country, in which case they are called inland bills. The term bill of exchange is often abbreviated into exchange; as, to buy or sell exchange.
  • English Word Exchange Definition A mutual grant of equal interests, the one in consideration of the other. Estates exchanged must be equal in quantity, as fee simple for fee simple.
  • English Word Exchange Definition The place where the merchants, brokers, and bankers of a city meet at certain hours, to transact business. In this sense often contracted to 'Change.
  • English Word Exchange Definition To part with give, or transfer to another in consideration of something received as an equivalent; -- usually followed by for before the thing received.
  • English Word Exchange Definition To part with for a substitute; to lay aside, quit, or resign (something being received in place of the thing parted with); as, to exchange a palace for cell.
  • English Word Exchange Definition To give and receive reciprocally, as things of the same kind; to barter; to swap; as, to exchange horses with a neighbor; to exchange houses or hats.
  • English Word Exchange Definition To be changed or received in exchange for; to pass in exchange; as, dollar exchanges for ten dimes.
  • English Word Exchangeability Definition The quality or state of being exchangeable.
  • English Word Exchangeable Definition Capable of being exchanged; fit or proper to be exchanged.
  • English Word Exchangeable Definition Available for making exchanges; ratable.
  • English Word Exchangeably Definition By way of exchange.
  • English Word Exchanged Definition of Exchange
  • English Word Exchanger Definition One who exchanges; one who practices exchange.
  • English Word Exchanging Definition of Exchange
  • English Word Excheat Definition See Escheat.
  • English Word Excheator Definition See Escheator.
  • English Word Exchequer Definition One of the superior courts of law; -- so called from a checkered cloth, which covers, or formerly covered, the table.
  • English Word Exchequer Definition The department of state having charge of the collection and management of the royal revenue. [Eng.] Hence, the treasury; and, colloquially, pecuniary possessions in general; as, the company's exchequer is low.
  • English Word Exchequer Definition To institute a process against (any one) in the Court of Exchequer.
  • English Word Exchequered Definition of Exchequer
  • English Word Exchequering Definition of Exchequer
  • English Word Excide Definition To cut off.
  • English Word Excipient Definition Taking an exception.
  • English Word Excipient Definition An exceptor.
  • English Word Excipient Definition An inert or slightly active substance used in preparing remedies as a vehicle or medium of administration for the medicinal agents.
  • English Word Exciple Definition Alt. of Excipulum
  • English Word Excipulum Definition The outer part of the fructification of most lichens.
  • English Word Excisable Definition Liable or subject to excise; as, tobacco in an excisable commodity.
  • English Word Excise Definition In inland duty or impost operating as an indirect tax on the consumer, levied upon certain specified articles, as, tobacco, ale, spirits, etc., grown or manufactured in the country. It is also levied to pursue certain trades and deal in certain commodities. Certain direct taxes (as, in England, those on carriages, servants, plate, armorial bearings, etc.), are included in the excise. Often used adjectively; as, excise duties; excise law; excise system.
  • English Word Excise Definition That department or bureau of the public service charged with the collection of the excise taxes.