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austauschen — meaning in English

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English meaning

  • bandy verb To pass something back and forth between people, especially words, rumors, or ideas.
  • commute verb To travel regularly between home and one's place of work or study.
  • dialogue noun A conversation between two or more people, especially in a book, play, or film.
  • swap verb To exchange one thing for another.
  • switch noun A device used to turn an electrical circuit on or off.

Senses

austauschen is used for these senses in English:

  • bandy (transitive) To give and receive reciprocally; to exchange.
  • commute To exchange substantially; to abate but not abolish completely, a penalty, obligation, or payment in return for a great, single thing or an aggregate; to cash in; to lessen
  • commute (intransitive, mathematics) Of an operation, to be commutative, i.e. to have the property that changing the order of the operands does not change the result.
  • dialogue (informal, business) To discuss or negotiate so that all parties can reach an understanding.

bandy — full definition

  1. verb To pass something back and forth between people, especially words, rumors, or ideas.
  2. adj Curving outward at the knees; bow-legged.

commute — full definition

  1. verb To travel regularly between home and one's place of work or study.
  2. noun The regular journey between home and work.
  3. verb To reduce a legal penalty or sentence to something less severe.

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