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'Change

'Change noun: the stock exchange.

Noun

'Change (uncountable)

  1. (colloquial, obsolete) The stock exchange.
    • [M]y father […] was well enough contented to see that she did not behave ill to his children, that she brought him no more, and that she always had a plain dinner ready for him when he came from 'Change […].1791, Charlotte Smith, Celestina, Broadview, published 2004, page 257
    • Marley was dead: to begin with. There is no doubt whatever about that. The register of his burial was signed by the clergyman, tlie clerk, the undertaker, and tlie chief mourner. Scrooge signed it: and Scrooge's name was good upon 'Change, for anything he chose to put his hand to.1843 December 19, Charles Dickens, “Stave I. Marley’s Ghost.”, in A Christmas Carol. […], London: Chapman & Hall, […], →OCLC, page 1

Origin of 'Change

Apheretic form of exchange.

Words formed from 'Change

Questions about 'Change

What does 'Change mean?
'Change means the stock exchange.
What part of speech is 'Change?
'Change is a noun.

Words near 'Change in the dictionary

  1. 'cause
  2. 'celli
  3. 'cello
  4. 'cellos
  5. 'cept
  6. 'Change
  7. 'cher
  8. 'chers
  9. 'choo
  10. 'chute
  11. 'chutes

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