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bureau de change

/ˈbjʊəɹ.əʊ.dəˌʃɒ̃ʒ/

bureau de change noun: a place where foreign currency can be exchanged.

bureau de change: a place where foreign currency can be exchanged
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Noun

bureau de change (plural bureaux de change or bureaus de change or bureau de changes)

  1. (Commonwealth, Ireland, UK) A place where foreign currency can be exchanged.
    • Near-synonym: money changer
    • A bureau de change, as has been seen, is certainly an institution or person subject to the Directive and it arguably enters into business relations with its customers.2007, R. C. H. Alexander, Insider Dealing and Money Laundering in the EU: Law and Regulation, page 155

bureau de change meaning in Arabic, Thai and Vietnamese

bureau de change in Arabic

a place where foreign currency can be exchanged
صِرَافَة اَلْعُمْلَات ṣirāfat al-ʕumlāt, مَكْتَب صِرَافَة maktab ṣirāfa

bureau de change in Thai

a place where foreign currency can be exchanged
สำนักงานแลกเงิน săm-nák ngaan lâek ngern

bureau de change in Vietnamese

a place where foreign currency can be exchanged
quầy đổi tiền

Synonyms of bureau de change

Forms of bureau de change

pluralbureaux de change
pluralbureaus de change
pluralbureau de changes

Origin of bureau de change

Unadapted borrowing from French bureau de change (“office of exchange”).

Questions about bureau de change

What does bureau de change mean?
Bureau de change means a place where foreign currency can be exchanged.
What is bureau de change in Arabic?
Bureau de change in Arabic is صِرَافَة اَلْعُمْلَات (ṣirāfat al-ʕumlāt), مَكْتَب صِرَافَة (maktab ṣirāfa). See Bureau de change meaning in Arabic.
What part of speech is bureau de change?
Bureau de change is a noun.
How do you pronounce bureau de change?
Bureau de change is pronounced /ˈbjʊəɹ.əʊ.dəˌʃɒ̃ʒ/ (UK).
What is the plural of bureau de change?
The plural of bureau de change is bureaux de change.

Words near bureau de change in the dictionary

  1. Burdwan
  2. Burdwan division
  3. bure
  4. bureau
  5. Bureau County
  6. bureau de change
  7. bureau de changes
  8. bureau plat
  9. Bureau-Barrière syndrome
  10. bureau-ocracy
  11. bureaucracies

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