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exchanging contracts

exchanging contracts is the present participle and gerund of exchange contracts.

exchanging contracts is the alternative form of exchange of contracts.

Meaning of exchange contracts

Verb

exchange contracts (third-person singular simple present exchanges contracts, present participle exchanging contracts, simple past and past participle exchanged contracts)

  1. (England, Northern Ireland, Wales, idiomatic) To formally contract to purchase, sell or otherwise be party to a disposition of an estate in land; usually requiring the payment of a deposit by one of the parties.
  2. (England, Northern Ireland, Wales, chiefly by legal practitioners) To create a contract for the disposition of an estate in land between negotiating parties, by a process which is immediately followed by the exchange of executed counterparts of the contract between each party's legal representative.

Meaning of exchange of contracts

Noun

exchange of contracts (plural exchanges of contracts)

  1. (England, Northern Ireland, Wales) The act of exchanging contracts.
  2. (England, Northern Ireland, Wales, idiomatic) The point or stage at which a conveyancing contract comes into existence between negotiating parties for the carrying out of a disposition of an estate in land; usually requiring the payment of a deposit.

Questions about exchanging contracts

What is exchanging contracts the present participle and gerund of?
Exchanging contracts is the present participle and gerund of exchange contracts.

Words near exchanging contracts in the dictionary

  1. exchanges vows
  2. exchangest
  3. exchangeth
  4. exchanging
  5. exchanging blows
  6. exchanging contracts
  7. exchanging flesh
  8. exchanging of contracts
  9. exchanging vows
  10. Exchangite
  11. Exchangites

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Adapted from Wiktionary: exchanging contracts (page history and authors); exchange contracts (page history and authors); exchange of contracts (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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