foreign exchange
The Oxford Pocket Dictionary of Current English | Date: 2008
for·eign ex·change
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n.
the currency of other countries.
∎
an institution or system for dealing in such currency.
© The Oxford Pocket Dictionary of Current English 2008, originally published by Oxford University Press 2008.
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