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Encyclopedia Britannica - Main :: CAU-CHA |
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CHANGE (derived through the Fr. from the Late Lat. cambium, cambiare, to barter; the ultimate derivation is probably from the root which appears in the Gr. a urmu', to bend) , properly the substitution of one thing for another, hence any alteration or variation, so applied to the moon's passing from one phase to another. The use of the word for a place of commercial business has usually been taken to be a shortened form of Exchange (q.v.) and so is often written 'Change . The New English
change " appears earlier than " exchange " in this sense. " Change " is particularly used of coins of lower
note , cheque
balance of a sum paid larger than that which is due. A further application is that in bell
term
BELL
slang
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