money changer
noun
1
: one whose business is the exchanging of kinds or denominations of currency
2
: a device for holding and dispensing sorted change
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Federici led me into the empty Nobile Collegio del Cambio, a suite of street-level rooms in a medieval palazzo used by the guild of money changers in the 15th century.
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Peter Terzian, Travel + Leisure, 17 Oct. 2024
But sometimes Christ goes into the temple and turns over the tables of the money changers.
—Faith E. Pinho, Los Angeles Times, 13 Oct. 2024
People stand outside a money changer looking at the rates of the Japanese yen against foreign currencies, along a street in central Tokyo on April 29, 2024.
—Matt Clinch, CNBC, 11 July 2024
Talked about driving the money changers out of the temple, talked about economic royalists, for example.
—Foreign Affairs, 29 Dec. 2016
But the deregulation of the banking sector in the 1980s ushered the money changers back into the temple by removing strict usury limits.
—Matthew Desmond, New York Times, 9 Mar. 2023
Juan, a money changer who delivers wads of cash on his motorbike, said three of his regular customers are police officers.
—New York Times, 6 Aug. 2022
The pound was trading at more 4,000 per dollar on the parallel market last week, with some money changers pricing it near 4,500.
—Youssef Diab, Bloomberg.com, 15 May 2020
The neighborhood resembles one near a bus depot or a port; the seminary was the center of the economy, and all around it stand money changers, guesthouses, travel agencies, and gift shops, catering to Muslim missionaries.
—Jeffrey Gettleman and, BostonGlobe.com, 12 Apr. 2020
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Peter Terzian, Travel + Leisure, 17 Oct. 2024
But sometimes Christ goes into the temple and turns over the tables of the money changers.
—Faith E. Pinho, Los Angeles Times, 13 Oct. 2024
People stand outside a money changer looking at the rates of the Japanese yen against foreign currencies, along a street in central Tokyo on April 29, 2024.
—Matt Clinch, CNBC, 11 July 2024
Talked about driving the money changers out of the temple, talked about economic royalists, for example.
—Foreign Affairs, 29 Dec. 2016
But the deregulation of the banking sector in the 1980s ushered the money changers back into the temple by removing strict usury limits.
—Matthew Desmond, New York Times, 9 Mar. 2023
Juan, a money changer who delivers wads of cash on his motorbike, said three of his regular customers are police officers.
—New York Times, 6 Aug. 2022
The pound was trading at more 4,000 per dollar on the parallel market last week, with some money changers pricing it near 4,500.
—Youssef Diab, Bloomberg.com, 15 May 2020
The neighborhood resembles one near a bus depot or a port; the seminary was the center of the economy, and all around it stand money changers, guesthouses, travel agencies, and gift shops, catering to Muslim missionaries.
—Jeffrey Gettleman and, BostonGlobe.com, 12 Apr. 2020
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“Money changer.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/money%20changer. Accessed 21 Dec. 2024.
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