interchange

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(New American Roget's College Thesaurus)

Exchange of something for its equal

Nouns — interchange, exchange, interchangeableness, interchangeability; permutation, intermutation; reciprocation, reciprocity, transportation, shuffling, give-and-take; alternation; hocus-pocus; barter; a Roland for an Oliver, tit for tat, an eye for an eye, retaliation; crossfire, battledore and shuttlecock; quid pro quo, musical chairs; fungible. See transfer, substitution.

Verbs — interchange, exchange, counterchange, transpose, bandy, shuffle, change hands, change partners, take turns, switch, swap, permute, reciprocate, commute; cash in; give or put and take, pay back, requite, return the compliment, put the shoe on the other foot, give a dose or taste of one's own medicine; retaliate (see retaliation). Informal, flip-flop.

Adjectives — interchanged, interchanging, interchangeable, fungible, reciprocal, mutual, communicative, intercurrent.

Adverbs — in exchange, vice versa, backward[s] and forward[s], by turns, turn and turn about; in exchange for, against, in consideration of; from hand to hand; in kind, in turn; each other, one another.

Phrases — one good turn deserves another.

Antonyms, see identity.

II

(Roget's IV) n.

1. [The act of giving and receiving reciprocally]

Syn. barter, trade, reciprocation; see exchange 2 .

2. [Alternation]

Syn. variation, varying, altering, exchange, transposition, shift, change of places, alternating; see also exchange 1 , 3 .

3. [A highway intersection]

Syn. cloverleaf, intersection, off-ramp; see crossing 1 , junction 2 , road 1 .

III

(Roget's Thesaurus II) I verb 1. To give up in return for something else: change, commute, exchange, shift, substitute, switch, trade. Informal: swap. See CHANGE, SUBSTITUTE. 2. To give and receive: bandy, exchange. See GIVE. 3. To do, use, or occur in successive turns: alternate, rotate. See CHANGE. II noun 1. The act of exchanging or substituting: change, commutation, exchange, shift, substitution, switch, trade, transposition. Informal: swap. See CHANGE, SUBSTITUTE. 2. Occurrence in successive turns: alternation, rotation. See CHANGE.