单词 | money changer |
释义 | money changern. A person who changes money from one form to another, esp. as a profession (now chiefly historical). Also: a machine which changes money. ΘΚΠ society > trade and finance > financial dealings > types of money-dealing > [noun] > money-changing > money changer mintereOE money-maker1297 changera1325 collybistc1380 moneyera1400 money changerc1400 nummularianc1429 wisseler1481 argenter1483 banker1484 exchanger1539 tablera1557 saraf1598 shroff1618 coin-courser1652 c1400 Bible (Wycliffite, E.V.) (Royal) John ii. 14 Money chaungeris [c1384 Douce 369(2) he fond in the temple men sellinge scheep..and chaungeris sittinge]. a1450 York Plays (1885) 222 (MED) Tabillis full of tresoure lay..Of oure cheffe mony-changers. 1526 Bible (Tyndale) Matt. xxi. f. xxix And overthrew the tables of the mony chaungers. 1649 Bp. J. Hall Resol. & Decisions i. vi. 57 The Roman Orator was downe in the mouth; finding himselfe thus cheated by the mony-changer. 1707 E. Ward London Terræfilius No. 1. 10 Whip'd out of Westminster-Hall, as the Money-Changers us'd to be out of the Temple. 1727 J. Arbuthnot Tables Anc. Coins 212 The Usurers or Money-changers being a sort of a scandalous employment at Rome. 1827 T. B. Macaulay Machiavelli in Ess. ⁋13 The tables of Italian money-changers were set in every city. 1885 U.S. Patent 321,815 1/1 Fig. 2 [shows a view] of the register and indicator and a portion of the connected money-changer. 1907 U.S. Patent 307,233 4/1 By rotating the handle..the number of coins fed out may be varied and in this way the device may be used as a money changer. 1952 G. Sarton Hist. Sci. I. xix. 471 The eunuch, Hermeias, who began his career as a money-changer, was a kind of financial wizard and became very wealthy and powerful. 1993 Toronto Star 16 Jan. (Travel section) e6 If you can't stand losing but still want to put money in a machine, ‘try a casino money changer. Insert one dollar, get one dollar's worth of change’. 1997 C. P. Baker Cuba Handbk. 321/1 There are plenty of moneychangers around farmers' markets... If you change money illegally, be cautious of scams. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, September 2002; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < n.c1400 |
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