EXCHANGE RATE

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does exchange rate mean? 

• EXCHANGE RATE (noun)
  The noun EXCHANGE RATE has 1 sense:

1. the charge for exchanging currency of one country for currency of another

  Familiarity information: EXCHANGE RATE used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• EXCHANGE RATE (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

The charge for exchanging currency of one country for currency of another

Classified under:

Nouns denoting possession and transfer of possession

Synonyms:

exchange rate; rate of exchange

Hypernyms ("exchange rate" is a kind of...):

charge per unit; rate (amount of a charge or payment relative to some basis)

 Context examples 

The homologous guanine nucleotide exchange factor EF-1-beta and EF-1-delta subunits stimulate GDP/GTP exchange bound to EF-1-alpha; phosphorylation affects the GDP/GTP exchange rate.

(Elongation Factor 1B1, NCI Thesaurus)

Homologous beta and delta subunits (guanine nucleotide exchange factors) stimulate GDP/GTP exchange bound to EF-1-alpha; phosphorylation affects the GDP/GTP exchange rate.

(Elongation Factor 1, NCI Thesaurus)