re-exˈchange, n.
[re- 5 a.]
1. Comm. (See quots. and cf. rechange n. 1.)
| 1707 Justice Treat. Monies 3 The Re-Exchange is the like Sum of Money, payable by the Drawer of a Bill which is return'd protested; for the Exchange of the Sum, contain'd in the Bill, back again to the place whence it was drawn. 1727–41 Chambers Cycl. s.v., The occasion of re-exchange is, when the bearer of a bill of exchange, after protesting it..draws a bill of exchange in the place where the payment was to be made, on the person who furnished the first. 1809 R. Langford Introd. Trade 22 Re-exchange means the damages incurred by non-acceptance and non⁓payment, and they consist of protest charges on the amount of the bill, commission, bill brokerage, interest, stamps, and postages. 1877 Law Rep. 7 Chanc. Div. 641 Re-exchange is defined..to be the difference in the value of a bill occasioned by its being dishonoured in a foreign country in which it was payable. |
2. A second or fresh exchange.
| 1856 Olmsted Slave States 566, I asked the landlord what I should do to effect a reëxchange. |
So re-exˈchange v. trans., to exchange again.
| 1873 Routledge's Young Gentlm. Mag. Dec. 117/2 Opportunity to re-exchange the cards. |