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WordReference Random House Learner's Dictionary of American English © 2024in•ter•change /v. ˌɪntɚˈtʃeɪndʒ; n. ˈɪntɚˌtʃeɪndʒ/USA pronunciation v., -changed, -chang•ing, n. v. - to cause (one thing) to change places with another: [~ + object]to interchange pieces of modular furniture.[no object]The two sides interchange every other game.
n. [countable] - an act or instance of interchanging:the free interchange of ideas.
- Transporta highway intersection in which vehicles may move from one road to another without crossing traffic:an accident at the last interchange.
WordReference Random House Unabridged Dictionary of American English © 2024in•ter•change (v. in′tər chānj′;n. in′tər chānj′),USA pronunciation v., -changed, -chang•ing, n. v.t. - to put each in the place of the other:to interchange pieces of modular furniture.
- to cause (one thing) to change places with another;
transpose. - to give and receive (things) reciprocally;
exchange:The twins interchanged clothes frequently. - to cause to follow one another alternately;
alternate:to interchange business cares with pleasures. v.i. - to occur by turns or in succession;
alternate. - to change places, as two persons or things, or as one with another.
n. - an act or instance of interchanging;
reciprocal exchange:the interchange of commodities. - a changing of places, as between two persons or things, or of one with another.
- alternation;
alternate succession. - Transporta highway intersection consisting of a system of several different road levels arranged so that vehicles may move from one road to another without crossing the streams of traffic.
- Middle French entrechangier
- 1325–75; inter- + change; replacing Middle English entrechaungen
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