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单词 money changer
释义

money changern.

Brit. /ˈmʌnɪˌtʃeɪn(d)ʒə/, U.S. /ˈməniˌtʃeɪndʒər/
Forms: see money n. and changer n.
Origin: Formed within English, by compounding. Etymons: money n., changer n.
Etymology: < money n. + changer n.
A person who changes money from one form to another, esp. as a profession (now chiefly historical). Also: a machine which changes money.
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changera1325
collybistc1380
moneyera1400
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nummularianc1429
wisseler1481
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banker1484
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tablera1557
saraf1598
shroff1618
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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).
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