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Verb exchange has 5 senses
- exchange, change, interchange - give to, and receive from, one another; "Would you change places with me?"; "We have been exchanging letters for a year"
--1 is one way to transfer
Sample sentence:
They exchange the goods
- change, exchange, commute, convert - exchange or replace with another, usually of the same kind or category; "Could you convert my dollars into pounds?"; "He changed his name"; "convert centimeters into inches"; "convert holdings into shares"
--2 is one way to replace
Sample sentences:
Somebody ----s something
Somebody ----s somebody
- switch over, switch, exchange - change over, change around, or switch over
--3 is one way to change by reversal, turn, reverse
Sample sentences:
Somebody ----s
Somebody ----s something PP
Somebody ----s PP
- exchange - hand over one and receive another, approximately equivalent; "exchange prisoners"; "exchange employees between branches of the company"
--4 is one way to transfer, reassign
Sample sentence:
Somebody ----s somebody
- commute, convert, exchange - exchange a penalty for a less severe one
--5 is one way to change, alter, modify
Sample sentence:
Somebody ----s something
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