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

Examples of money changer in a Sentence

Recent Examples on the Web

Jesus drove the money changers from the Temple, condemning the blending of commerce and worship, and yet Trump is reportedly charging up to $200,000 for political donors to pray with him. —David Faris, Newsweek, 17 Jan. 2025

The definition of a military target included lookouts and money changers suspected of handling Hamas’s funds, as well as the entrances to the group’s underground tunnel network, which were often hidden in homes. —Patrick Kingsley, New York Times, 26 Dec. 2024

His turning over tables of money changers in the temple fuels my disgust for politicians who sell Bibles and inaugural opportunities to attend church with them. —Gwen Faulkenberry, arkansasonline.com, 12 Dec. 2024

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. —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

Word History

First Known Use

15th century, in the meaning defined at sense 1

Rhymes for money changer

• arranger
• endanger
• exchanger
• danger
• manger
• ranger
• stranger

Kids Definition

money changer

noun

: one whose business is the exchanging of one kind of money for the amount of other kinds of money that is equal in value