Word forms: plural, 3rd person singular presenttense interchanges, present participle interchanging, past tense, past participle interchangedpronunciation note: The noun is pronounced (ɪntəʳtʃeɪndʒ). The verb is pronounced (ɪntəʳtʃeɪndʒ).
1. variable noun
If there is an interchange of ideas or information among a group of people, each person talks about his or her ideas or gives information to the others.
What made the meeting exciting was the interchange of ideas from different disciplines. [+ of]
Ministers want to see more interchange between the private sector and the civil service.
Synonyms: exchange, give and take, alternation, reciprocation More Synonyms of interchange
2. verb
If you interchange one thing with another, or you interchange two things, each thing takes the place of the other or is exchanged for the other.You can also say that two things interchange.
She likes to interchange her furnishings at home with the stock in her shop. [VERB noun + with]
Your task is to interchange words so that the sentence makes sense. [VERB noun]
...the point where the illusions of the stage and reality begin to interchange. [VERB]
[Also + with]
Synonyms: exchange, switch, swap, alternate More Synonyms of interchange
Interchange is also a noun.
...the interchange of matter and energy at atomic or sub-atomic levels. [+ of]
3. countable noun [usually noun NOUN]
An interchange on a motorway, freeway, or road is a place where it joins a main road or another motorway or freeway.
interchange in British English
verb (ˌɪntəˈtʃeɪndʒ)
1.
to change places or cause to change places; alternate; exchange; switch
noun (ˈɪntəˌtʃeɪndʒ)
2.
the act of interchanging; exchange or alternation
3.
a motorway junction of interconnecting roads and bridges designed to prevent streams of traffic crossing one another
Derived forms
interchangeable (ˌinterˈchangeable)
adjective
interchangeability (ˌinterˌchangeaˈbility) or interchangeableness (ˌinterˈchangeableness)
noun
interchangeably (ˌinterˈchangeably)
adverb
interchange in American English
(ˌɪntərˈtʃeɪndʒ; for n. ˈɪntərˌtʃeɪndʒ)
verb transitiveWord forms: ˌinterˈchanged or ˌinterˈchanging
1.
to give and take mutually; exchange
to interchange ideas
2.
to put (each of two things) in the other's place
3.
to alternate; cause to follow in succession
to interchange work with play
verb intransitive
4.
to change places with each other
noun
5.
the act or an instance of interchanging
6.
a junction which allows movement of traffic between highways on different levels, as a cloverleaf
Word origin
ME entrechangen < OFr entrechangier: see inter- & change
Examples of 'interchange' in a sentence
interchange
Yet her evidence suggests more of a constant interchange between the two leading trading nations of the day.
Times, Sunday Times (2008)
So-called interchange fees are collected by banks from businesses each time a consumer uses a debit or credit card to make a purchase.
Times, Sunday Times (2014)
My life in the world is sustainable only if the world comes to be in me, only if there is a continuous interchange between the two.
Christianity Today (2000)
They were telling each other, with a confidential interchange of ideas, where they had been during the day.
Hans Christian Andersen Andersen's Fairy Tales (1874)
It's better, but it still feels like a fragment of unfinished master plan tacked onto a gargantuan traffic interchange.
Times, Sunday Times (2006)
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interchange
British English: interchange NOUN
If there is an interchange of ideas or information among a group of people, each person talks about his or her ideas or gives information to the others.
What made the meeting exciting was the interchange of ideas from different disciplines.