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ˈmoney-changer
One whose business it is to change money at a fixed or authorized rate.
1382Wyclif John ii. 14 And he fond in the temple men sellinge scheep, and oxen, and culueris, and chaungeris [v.r. money chaungeris] sittinge. c1440York Myst. xxvi. 73 In oure temple..Where tabillis full of tresoure lay..Of oure cheffe mony-changers. 1526Tindale Matt. xxi. 12 And overthrew the tables of the mony chaungers. 1727Arbuthnot Coins, etc. 212 The Usurers or Money-changers being a sort of a scandalous employment at Rome. 1827Macaulay Ess., Machiavelli ⁋13 The tables of Italian money-changers were set in every city. |