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Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
foreign exchange
noun
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
▪ Coffee is a valuable source of foreign exchange for Uganda.
▪ The foreign exchange markets reacted quickly to the cut in German interest rates.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
▪ Notable examples include foreign exchange and financial markets, technology and demography.
▪ The auction market in foreign exchange involves trading in futures contracts.
▪ The bank accepts the foreign exchange risk exposure.
▪ The first concerns the best method of allocating the scarce foreign exchange currently available.
▪ The reader might wonder what constitutes foreign exchange.
▪ The resulting trade deficit and shortage of incoming foreign exchange added to the country's balance-of-payments problem.
▪ The simple addition of a foreign exchange facility to the agreement will provide funds in a wide variety of foreign currencies.
▪ These have grown enormously in recent years, especially since the abolition of foreign exchange controls in 1979.
Wiktionary
foreign exchange

n. 1 The exchange of currency from one country for currency from another country. 2 (context India English) foreign currency.

WordNet
foreign exchange

n. the system by which one currency is exchanged for another; enables international transactions to take place

Wikipedia
Foreign exchange

Foreign exchange may refer to:

Foreign Exchange (U.S. TV series)

Foreign Exchange (previously Foreign Exchange with Fareed Zakaria) was a weekly, half-hour international affairs series on the Public Broadcasting Service (PBS) public television stations. The series premiered on April 1, 2005, and for three seasons was hosted by author and journalist Fareed Zakaria. Beginning in January 2008, journalist Daljit Dhaliwal became the new host and the title of the show was changed accordingly. The series explores current international issues in conversations with journalists, politicians, and other newsmakers, and examines America's role in an increasingly globalized world. The final episode aired October 9, 2009.

The show was produced by Azimuth Media and Oregon Public Broadcasting, and was distributed by American Public Television. Major funding was provided by the William and Flora Hewlett Foundation. Additional support from the Ford Foundation and Carnegie Corporation of New York.

Through a partnership with the citizen journalism website Helium.com the show offered viewers an opportunity to get their voices heard on the most pressing global issues. The issues were chosen by Foreign Exchange and ranged from Kosovo as an inspiration to other independence movements in the world to the future of socialism in Latin America. Essays were written and rated on Helium.com, and the best essays were featured on the show.

Foreign Exchange (CNBC World)

Foreign Exchange, which debuted on June 27, 2005, is a business show on CNBC World focusing exclusively on trading in the currency markets.

Foreign Exchange is CNBC World's first original live program, is anchored by a rotating group of reporters from CNBC's Global Headquarters (was previously anchored by The Wall Street Journal's Bob O'Brien), and Dow Jones Newswires' Nick Hastings as a contributor from CNBC Europe headquarters in London.

The show now airs weekdays from 8:30 to 8:45 AM ET.

Foreign Exchange (TV series)

Foreign Exchange is an Irish-Australian television programme broadcast by Southern Star from 5 November to 27 December 2004. It starred Lynn Styles as Hannah O'Flaherty, a feisty Irish girl, and Zachary Garred as Brett Miller, a sun-drenched Australian boy. The pair are brought together from opposite sides of the world, due to a transfer portal. The series of 26 episodes was created by the Australian John Rapsey and directed by Annie Murtagh-Monks and Gillian Reynolos.

Foreign Exchange (2008 film)

Foreign Exchange is a 2008 American independent film directed by Danny Roth.

Foreign Exchange (1970 film)

Foreign Exchange is a 1970 British television thriller film directed by Roy Ward Baker and starring Robert Horton, Sebastian Cabot and Jill St. John. It is based on a novel by Jimmy Sangster. Its plot involves a former British spy who arranges an exchange of captured spies with Russia.

The same characters had been featured earlier in the 1969 television film The Spy Killer. The film was shown in the US on the ABC Movie of the Week.

Usage examples of "foreign exchange".

One FBI photo depicts him as a thin, haunted-looking criminal, the other a boyish-looking foreign exchange student.

Jack, if we apply the same trade laws to China that the Chinese apply to us, well, it'll put a major crimp in their foreign exchange accounts.

The City trembled, prophesying doom and the collapse of foreign exchange.

They're the oldest Russian items of foreign exchange, tribute to khans and Caesars.

The Soviet Union had never possessed a very large quantity of foreign exchange, and mainly used it to purchase technology with military applications.

The system is still working, as yet the farms haven't been totally decimated and handed over to hordes of peasant squatters, the railroads work, there are some foreign exchange earnings from copper and chrome and tourism.