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exchange student

The definition of an exchange student is a person who goes to a foreign country or location in order to undertake learning and schooling while a student from that country or location attends a school in the first country.

(noun)

An example of an exchange student is an American college student studying abroad in France while a French student attends school in the U.S.

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See exchange student in Webster's New World College Dictionary

a student who, by prior arrangement, attends a school in a foreign country while a student from that country attends a school in the country of the first

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