单词 | bureau de change |
释义 | bureau de changen. Chiefly British. An office or business establishment at which customers can buy or sell foreign currency at a set exchange rate. ΚΠ 1853 Times 17 Dec. 2/6 Apply at Mr. Gardner's, Bureau de Change, 121, Oxford-street. 1876 Manch. Guardian 1 Sept. 8/2 Witness once told the accused he could get foreign money at the Bureau de Change at Charing Cross. 1905 H. G. Wells Mod. Utopia v. 146 There are several hotel omnibuses and a Bureau de Change. 1960 New Scientist 28 July 303/3 These coins..are rarely welcomed by the bank clerks and the bureaux de change. 2010 J. Duns Free Country viii. 92 Ten pounds at the bureau de change in Heathrow had got me just shy of fifteen thousand lire. This is a new entry (OED Third Edition, December 2013; most recently modified version published online December 2021). < n.1853 |
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