money changer en · NOUN
Pronunciation
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Meanings
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A person who will exchange currency of one type for another for a fee or percentage.
The money changer gave me rupees for my dollars.
Near-synonyms: bureau de change, currency exchange
And Jesus went into the temple of God, and cast out all them that sold and bought in the temple, and overthrew the tables of the moneychangers, and the seats of them that sold doves, […]
1611, The Holy Bible, […] (King James Version), London: […] Robert Barker, […], →OCLC, Matthew 21:12:the money changers in the temple
From His triumphal entry into Jerusalem, Jesus entered the Temple complex. His mood turned from joy to anger as he watched the buyers and sellers inside the Temple. Matthew tells us in Matthew 21:12-13: And Jesus went into the temple of God, and cast out all them that sold and bought in the temple, and overthrew the tables of the moneychangers, and the seats of them that sold doves, And said unto them, It is written, My house shall be called the house of prayer; but ye have made it a den of thieves. And the blind and the lame came to him in the temple; and he healed them. (KJV) Jesus became very indignant about the carelessness of the money changers in the Temple. In the Temple, there was special Temple money that was required. The money changers took advantage of that and took more Roman coins than they should have taken from the worshippers. They also sold Temple sacrifices of sheep and doves inside the Temple. Jesus drove them out and of course angered the priests and Levites because this was a profitable business for them. Jesus quoted from Isaiah 56:7 […] El Greco's picture is very expressive of driving the money changers from the Temple. The painting was completed somewhere between 1570 and 1575. This is one of several paintings of the same scene that El Greco painted.
2006, Edward Buchanan, “Christ Driving the Money Changers from the Temple by El Greco”, in Parent/Teacher Handbook: Teaching Older Children Everything They Need to Know about Their Christian Heritage (Parent/Teacher Handbooks Series), volume 4, B&H Publishing Group, →ISBN, page 125:
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A portable device for dispensing change.
Women had replaced men on the streetcars as conductors and motormen, and the thought of sailing up and down the hills of San Francisco in a dark-blue uniform, with a money changer at my belt, caught my fancy.
1969, Maya Angelou, chapter 34, in I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings, New York: Bantam, published 1971, page 224:
Forms
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| money changers | Number=Plur | lexicographic |
Hypernyms
Relateds
foreign exchange · money changing · currency exchange
Synonyms
currency exchange · bureau de change
Translations (54)
el σαράφης (person who will exchange currency) · pl handlarz walutą (person who will exchange currency) · gd neach-malairt (person who will exchange currency) · gv maylartagh argid (person who will exchange currency) · la argentārius (person who will exchange currency) · lad saraf (person who will exchange currency) · el αργυραμοιβός (person who will exchange currency) · de Geldwechsler (person who will exchange currency) · it scambista (person who will exchange currency) · de Geldwechslerin (person who will exchange currency) · az sərraf (person who will exchange currency) · hy դրամափոխ (person who will exchange currency) · id penukar uang (person who will exchange currency) · ro cambistă (person who will exchange currency) · cu пѣнѧжьникъ (person who will exchange currency) · es cambista (person who will exchange currency) · fi raharenki (device for dispensing change) · ta காசுக்காரன் (person who will exchange currency) · fa-ira صَرَّاف (person who will exchange currency) · enm chaungere (person who will exchange currency) · gd neach-malairt airgid (person who will exchange currency) · gd malairtiche-airgid (person who will exchange currency) · tr sarraf (person who will exchange currency) · fi rahanvaihtaja (person who will exchange currency) · la nummulārius (person who will exchange currency) · got 𐍃𐌺𐌰𐍄𐍄𐌾𐌰 (person who will exchange currency) · gv caghlaader argid (person who will exchange currency) · nl wisselaar (person who will exchange currency) · nl wisselautomaat (device for dispensing change) · grc ἀργυραμοιβός (person who will exchange currency) · ro zaraf (person who will exchange currency) · lad סאראף (person who will exchange currency) · ga malartóir airgid (person who will exchange currency) · ar صَرَّاف (person who will exchange currency) · uz sarrof (person who will exchange currency) · fi kolikkorenki (device for dispensing change) · cmn 貨幣兌換商 /货币兑换商 (person who will exchange currency) · fr cambiste (person who will exchange currency) · ur صَرّاف (person who will exchange currency) · nl geldwisselaar (person who will exchange currency) · ro cambist (person who will exchange currency) · hi सराफ़ (person who will exchange currency) · it cambiavalute (person who will exchange currency) · grc κολλυβιστής (person who will exchange currency) · ms pengurup wang (person who will exchange currency) · pt cambista (person who will exchange currency) · cu тръжьникъ (person who will exchange currency) · cmn 零錢兌換機 /零钱兑换机 (device for dispensing change) · th คนแลกเงิน (person who will exchange currency) · enm monymaker (person who will exchange currency) · ca canvista (person who will exchange currency) · ru меня́ла (person who will exchange currency) · arz صراف (person who will exchange currency) · hy լումայափոխ (person who will exchange currency)