interchanging

Variant of interchange

transitive verb interchanged, interchanging

  1. to give and take mutually; exchange: to interchange ideas
  2. to put (each of two things) in the other's place
  3. to alternate; cause to follow in succession: to interchange work with play

Origin: ME entrechangen < OFr entrechangier: see inter- & change

intransitive verb

to change places with each other

noun

  1. the act or an instance of interchanging
  2. a junction which allows movement of traffic between highways on different levels, as a cloverleaf
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