I. noun
COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES
an exchange of views (= when people say what they think, especially when they disagree )
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There was a frank exchange of views at the meeting.
bill of exchange
corn exchange
currency exchange (= the process of changing from one country’s currency to another )
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Banks make good profits on currency exchange.
exchange gifts (= give someone a gift at the same time as they give you a gift )
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We exchange gifts on Christmas Day.
exchange glances (= look at each other quickly )
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Mai exchanged glances with Tatsuya.
exchange gossip (= talk about other people and their private lives with someone )
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They used to meet up and exchange gossip.
exchange handshakes
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The teams exchanged handshakes at the end of the game.
exchange information (= give information to each other )
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The meetings provided an opportunity to exchange information.
exchange of gunfire
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Two men were shot in an exchange of gunfire with the police.
exchange presents (= give each other a present )
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We always exchange Christmas and birthday presents.
exchange rate mechanism
exchange rate
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a more favourable exchange rate
exchange student
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an 18-year-old exchange student from France
exchange vows (= make promises to each other as part of a wedding ceremony )
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They wanted to exchange vows before their family and friends.
exchanged courtesies
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The two men exchanged courtesies before getting down to business.
exchanged greetings (= greeted each other )
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The two cousins exchanged greetings .
exchanged pleasantries
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Stephen and Mr Illing exchanged pleasantries .
foreign exchange markets/rates/transactions etc
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The dollar is expected to fall in the foreign exchange markets.
foreign exchange
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The dollar is expected to fall in the foreign exchange markets.
frank discussion/interview/exchange of views etc
labour exchange
part exchange
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The company takes the buyer’s property in part exchange.
quoted on the stock exchange (= people can buy and sell shares in it )
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The company is now quoted on the stock exchange .
rate of exchange
share/exchange ideas (= tell someone else your ideas, and learn their ideas )
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an opportunity for local business people to share ideas
stock exchange
takes...in part exchange
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The company takes the buyer’s property in part exchange.
telephone exchange
the exchange rate (= the value of the money of one country compared to the money of another country )
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the exchange rate between the dollar and sterling
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ ADJECTIVE
cultural
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Sport can be an appropriate way of promoting cultural and social exchanges and development.
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The treaties covered bilateral protection and promotion of investments, penal cooperation, cultural exchanges and customs cooperation, officials said.
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Walesa's visit was also intended to boost bilateral trade and cultural exchanges .
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Guests take advantage of local transportation in order to facilitate cultural exchanges .
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What emerges is the implication that the perceived cultural exchange between these selected texts reveal preoccupations found throughout the whole culture.
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Long periods of enforced coexistence may include concessions or agreements and important, often fruitful, cultural exchange .
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New religious ideas and moral codes were made accessible by widescale immigration, cultural exchanges and mass communication.
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What did the riots in Watts accomplish?... Cultural exchange can do much to clear up misunderstandings.
fair
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That sounds like a pretty fair exchange .
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Such items seemed a fair exchange for free baths.
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When he asked anxiously if she minded, she said it was a fair exchange for all his kindness to her.
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I didn't consider it a fair exchange .
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A possibility of future heartbreak against the certainty of present pain ... It seemed like a fair exchange .
foreign
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When a country has a persistent shortage of foreign exchange , two kinds of policy question arise.
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Like the foreign exchange market, no physical euro-currency market exists but instead it consists of telecommunications between banks.
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The foreign exchange crisis has robbed the country of regular fuel supplies.
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These have grown enormously in recent years, especially since the abolition of foreign exchange controls in 1979.
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This is one reason why the Yugoslav government has tried to avoid raising the price of foreign exchange .
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If it were to expropriate their property it would have to compensate them with scarce foreign exchange .
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Controls over foreign exchange , credits and scarce materials could hardly force anybody to expand.
international
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The most important change must be the abandonment of tariffs, and the freeing of international food exchange .
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Every time the quid gets gang-banged on the international exchange , all the Arab chicks get a new fur coat.
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The new institute's other roles will be those of research, documentation and international exchanges .
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An international body currently working on standards for international data exchange among other things.
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Otherwise we put the continuity of vital work in jeopardy by failing to shelter it from the winds of international currency exchanges .
■ NOUN
information
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Almost none of this information exchange has survived.
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It is a voluntary organization whose goal is to promote global information exchange .
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Influences can similarly be established, leading to the possibility of future collaboration, or at least information exchange programmes.
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First, the new communications media have greatly expanded the means of information exchange between political elites.
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This would run counter to the very informal information exchange that gives it meaning in this internal context.
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Activities i. Establish mechanisms for timely and systematic information exchange between public health agencies of different countries about emerging infectious diseases.
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The scope for the retention of this kind of information exchange is not significantly better or worse today than it was then.
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The simulations include group problem-solving, detailed information exchange , one to one and team negotiating.
rate
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At the current exchange rates that amounts to a mere £159.
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Fourth, by pushing up interest rates , fiscal policy can push up the exchange rate of the currency.
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Once the system of fixed exchange rates had been abandoned there was no alternative but for currencies to float.
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Exports were calculated based on an exchange rate of 123.77 yen in February against 125.59 a year ago.
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The first was that because the exchange rate target was not explicit it was ultimately not credible.
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The aim of this grander scheme was to enable policy-makers to combine stability in real exchange rates with steady, non-inflationary growth.
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Of course that's if you exchanged money at the regular exchange rate of 12 lei to the pound.
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Due to a number of factors, e.g. inflation and current account imbalances, the fixed exchange rate system collapsed in March 1973.
reserve
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By mid-1989 foreign exchange reserves were estimated to be sufficient to cover only two months of imports.
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Global surpluses can likewise be meaningless to the dozens of poor nations that have overwhelming demands placed on slim foreign exchange reserves .
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Billions of pounds have been wiped off share values and removed from foreign exchange reserves this week.
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In February 1994 it had $ 30 billion in exchange reserves .
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Government figures indicated that total foreign exchange reserves stood at only US$14,750,000.
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According to the first figures available, it is estimated that the national bank's exchange reserves equal a month's imports.
telephone
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It is as vital as the plastic insulation in a telephone exchange .
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The train has its own telephone exchange and electricity generating car, plus office accommodations and restaurant cars for the royal entourage.
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The telephone exchange was all plugs and manual dialling-not a computer in sight.
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Kodachrome was developed by two musicians and the original automatic telephone exchange by an undertaker.
value
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To start with there is the distinction between exchange value and use value.
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Markets define things in terms of their exchange value .
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For example, if a pound of coffee sells for £3 this is its exchange value .
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Thus the state tells a group of farmers to produce a million tomatoes and then sets the exchange value of those tomatoes.
PHRASES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
have/exchange words (with sb)
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He and Kemp pound down the stairway, exchanging words .
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I have words before my eyes, as you might imagine.
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I would hear the women exchange words with Miss Fingerstop.
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Linda buried herself in the crowd, exchanging words with this one and that and heading for the bar.
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Nurses busily went up and down, sometimes pausing to exchange words and careless laughter.
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Sometimes, Britten seems to have written more naturally when he didn't have words to set.
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They exchanged words , not all of which appeared to be in jest.
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Without it, you have words virtually sprinkled across the page, each project an exercise in speed and frustration.
medium of exchange
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As a medium of exchange it no longer works, and that's that.
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Like the black woman in a slave narrative, the Chicana remains here an abiding if sometimes invisible medium of exchange.
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Monetarists stress the function of money as a medium of exchange and play down its role as a store of wealth.
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Money balances held for these two purposes are called active balances: money to be used as a medium of exchange.
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Stainless steel made good medium of exchange on a planet where all metal had to be imported.
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Such a commodity, once acceptable, performed the role of a medium of exchange and could be regarded as money.
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They are not therefore directly related to people's requirements to hold a medium of exchange.
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Trusted paper became both a collateral for short-term credit and an immensely important medium of exchange.
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
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a commodities exchange
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A series of heated exchanges between the two governments followed.
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an exchange of gunfire
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During angry exchanges in Parliament the Prime Minister said he would not change existing policies.
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In any negotiations there must be an honest exchange of information.
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Sale goods can be brought back to the store for an exchange or store credit.
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The exchange of prisoners took place on a bridge over the Mekong river.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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A further cause could result from the exchange of gas in and out of the bladder.
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In the case of exchanges it usually translates into a general contractual duty to act fairly.
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It is well within reason to expect help in this regard in exchange for further financial assistance.
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It was obvious to me that they had been here before and that they were enjoying the exchange .
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That will become especially important in the coming global battle between exchanges for international securities-trading business.
II. verb
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ NOUN
blow
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Two figures were battling furiously, exchanging blows as they materialized.
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While the men exchanged blows the girl struck Farini from behind with a blunt instrument.
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They rolled over and over on the damp moss, exchanging blows and vile words until finally Topaz's strength ran out.
contract
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She had to go through with it now, as she had exchanged contracts on the house.
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One person close to Disney said the two parties have exchanged contracts and expect to close the transaction this month.
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Don't exchange contracts until you and your client are satisfied on every point and in particular about adoption of roads and drains.
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Once the hammer has fallen, the successful bidder for a house must exchange contracts immediately and pay a deposit.
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Once you have exchanged contracts , the countdown to completion and the day of your move begins.
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In effect this stage is equivalent to exchange of contracts in a sale by private treaty, with completion four weeks later.
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If Guy had only exchanged contracts last week, he'd organised himself with impressive speed.
currency
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However, most banks will exchange currency at short notice.
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To begin with, when nations trade there arises a need to exchange their currencies .
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When a central bank buys a surplus of foreign currency it exchanges it for domestic currency, here Deutschmarks.
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In short, the gold standard obligated the central bank to exchange currency for gold at a fixed price.
fire
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On the screen, two cowboys were exchanging rifle fire at a distance of thirty meters or so.
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The authorities and assailants exchanged fire in a violent confrontation in which Cuenca and police officer Santiago Esparza Astorga were killed.
futures
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The dollar rose against a basket of 10 currencies tracked by Finex, a financial futures exchange .
glance
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Navigational transits were now flying past; glances were exchanged though no words spoken.
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There was a big rear-view mirror over the bar so he could see the glances being exchanged behind his back.
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In unheard-of clarity, the words that had been spoken returned, the glances that had been exchanged .
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The glances Stella and Alexis exchanged seemed more intimate than was usual between a brother-in-law and a sister-in-law.
goods
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They exchanged perishable consumer goods which were mutually valuable in the ordinary fashion of barter trade.
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If people want to exchange any goods , they will do so by barter.
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The employees can then exchange the vouchers for goods or services.
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All the peoples traded in the products of their particular region, exchanging goods by means of barter.
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Exchanging goods Anyone working in the retail trade will often have to deal with customers who want to exchange or return goods.
gossip
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They could exchange gossip about the parish; anything to distract his mind.
greeting
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He roused himself wearily to exchange greetings with the elders as they passed him, and went in to his foster-father.
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Word is she and McDermott exchanged pleasantries and greetings and watched the goings-on.
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Hardly a word was exchanged after the first greeting .
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They exchanged brief greetings but one day he was walking slowly past the end of Magdalen Street as she cycled up.
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We gathered around a paddy dike and exchanged greetings and impressions.
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I wondered how long I should give them to exchange greetings .
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They shook hands, exchanged greetings , and so on.
idea
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In a process which stretched over several weeks they exchanged ideas .
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As they exchanged ideas and memories, both felt richer.
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Such meetings are also an opportunity to exchange ideas and see displays of books and other materials.
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Some of the confusion would certainly have been lessened if the two great minds had had opportunities to exchange ideas .
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Meeting together at a disability arts event can also provide rare opportunities for disabled people to exchange ideas .
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They say it allows them to exchange ideas .
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He needs to be able to exchange ideas , express moods and emotions.
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They exchanged ideas and set their sights on a large building in Sacramento.
information
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As we exchanged information , the Alsatian sat at our feet, licking the salt out of an empty crisp packet.
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Children exchange information with one another in their conversations and learn to view events from the position of others.
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Strictly speaking, the Internet is an international network of computers linked up to exchange information .
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It is very helpful to exchange information and coping measures with other sufferers of the disease and their families.
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The meetings provided an opportunity to exchange information about future events and to discuss problems of mutual interest.
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Bulletin boards are a low-tech way to exchange information .
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Both sides also agreed to exchange information on a weekly basis between senior military commanders on troop deployments and movements.
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There are also local credit associations that exchange credit information .
kiss
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When they had met and exchanged a few kisses , that would be time enough.
look
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The patients loved it and several laughed out loud at her antics, while Martha and Yvonne exchanged looks of glee.
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They exchanged looks full of sadness, as if they had both lost something.
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He watched as Gilbert exchanged a look with an equally shell-shocked Frye ... and then hurried quickly towards the reception door.
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Papi exchanged a helpless look with Mami.
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Riven and Ratagan exchanged a look , and Riven realised that the big man knew everything.
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As you began again, all of us around you exchanged more pained looks .
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The two men exchange a look and put their revolvers back into their holsters.
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Jess and Red exchange another look .
message
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They can also exchange electronic mail messages and take part in, or initiate, electronic conferences.
money
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They exchanged their freedom for money and liquor, and as it turned out there would be no end of this curse.
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In this process the cans of beans are exchanged for money .
opportunity
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The meetings provided an opportunity to exchange information about future events and to discuss problems of mutual interest.
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Some of the confusion would certainly have been lessened if the two great minds had had opportunities to exchange ideas.
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Such meetings are also an opportunity to exchange ideas and see displays of books and other materials.
service
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Households exchange their labour services for goods.
smile
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Harry, for his part, exchanged a knowing smile with Papaioannou, then went on in the direction of the village.
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The officer asked it a second time, choosing different words, and exchanged a smile with the younger officer.
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The children gagged and joked as expected, Jim and Karen exchanged smiles throughout the meal.
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Monday in court, they looked relaxed, two exchanging smiles as the charges against them were detailed.
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Try just exchanging some attention: see if you can exchange a smile and a flirtatious glance with him.
word
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Nurses busily went up and down, sometimes pausing to exchange words and careless laughter.
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He was silent, and they walked on a few yards without exchanging a word .
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He sat with Sir Harold for a while, but they exchanged few words .
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The man was Magnus Olesen, and he and Muus did not exchange three words all afternoon.
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She smiled, and exchanged a few words with him; then others came to say farewell.
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He and Kemp pound down the stairway, exchanging words .
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He and I exchanged sharp words when he informed me that the hamster would have to undergo the rabies test.
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
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As Sally approached wearing her new dress, the others exchanged glances and tried not to laugh.
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Danny and his lawyer exchanged uneasy looks.
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Did you exchange any money before your trip?
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Foreign currency can be exchanged for sterling at any bank.
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My family still exchanges gifts at Christmas.
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The two men were exchanging insults and accusing each other of mismanagement.
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This shirt is too big. Can I exchange it?
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We exchanged phone numbers, but I don't think I'll call him.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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Bellamy exchanged wild shots with MacLane as we left the captain in the middle of the road.
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First Bank System has offered to exchange 2. 6 of its shares for each First Interstate share in the proposed acquisition.
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Grant rode down to the river to exchange congratulations with Admiral Porter on their joint victory.
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I wish to exchange this flash-of-lightning faith for continuous daylight, this fever-glow for a benign climate.
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I would be glad to exchange them for the same face value as the increasingly worthless and derisory folding stuff.
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None of the passengers exchanged names and addresses-they were too distraught.
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Sometimes the food they bring runs out and they have to exchange their precious maize for a few mangoes.
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The volunteer returned once a week to ask the patient if he or she wanted to exchange the prints for others.