How to Use foreign exchange in a Sentence

foreign exchange

noun
Definition of foreign exchangenext
  • Our country has to export more in order to earn more foreign exchange.
  • In the 70’s, Doris opened her home to the first of many foreign exchange students or young adults needing a place to stay.
    — Orlando Sentinel, OrlandoSentinel.com, 25 Jan. 2018
  • Had the Mullahs with about $4billion in foreign exchange.
    — Noah Rothman, National Review, 17 Oct. 2023
  • China has the largest foreign exchange reserves in the world.
    — Ananya Bhattacharya, Quartz, 22 Sep. 2022
  • What if the creature was part of a foreign exchange program?
    — Chris Willman, Variety, 23 Apr. 2022
  • Hong Kong’s foreign exchange reserves are the world’s eight-largest.
    — Nicholas Gordon, Fortune, 24 Nov. 2022
  • The witness ran toward a group of foreign exchange students and asked them to call 911.
    — David Hernandez, San Diego Union-Tribune, 27 Nov. 2022
  • Even if that were the case, Yameen has reason to fear a slowdown in the tourism sector, the Maldives’ largest source of foreign exchange.
    — Joseph Hincks, Time, 6 Feb. 2018
  • But the lack of foreign exchange means that imports may become scarce.
    — The Economist, 2 Nov. 2017
  • Then along comes Stig, a Swedish foreign exchange student who's even taller.
    — Sonja Haller, USA TODAY, 30 Aug. 2019
  • And abroad, Venezuelan gold is sold by the ton -- one of the country's few remaining means of foreign exchange.
    — Vasco Cotovio, CNN, 20 Aug. 2019
  • The victim, Ho, and a friend -- both foreign exchange students -- were walking home when two men tried to rob them.
    — Nicole Chavez, CNN, 17 July 2019
  • The steep rise in cases has roiled the foreign exchange markets, with the British pound sterling falling 0.3% against the dollar.
    — Sophie Mellor, Fortune, 13 Dec. 2021
  • Loan rates have moved up sharply, stock prices have dropped, and the dollar has strengthened in foreign exchange markets.
    — David Wilcox, CNN, 25 Oct. 2022
  • While the show was being filmed, the Rihns had a foreign exchange student from Madrid living with them.
    — Deborah Martin, San Antonio Express-News, 31 Mar. 2021
  • In the end, this probably won’t amount to much, either in trade volume or in foreign exchange.
    — John Cullen, Harper's magazine, 10 Jan. 2019
  • The money appears to have been raised from the bank’s foreign exchange reserves and an auction to importers.
    — Alexander Onukwue, Quartz, 29 Aug. 2022
  • Malawi devalued the kwacha by 25% in May to address a shortage of foreign exchange.
    — Karl Lester M Yap, Bloomberg.com, 12 Feb. 2023
  • That comes with two issues: foreign exchange risk and repricing risk.
    — Radu Magdin, Forbes, 4 Oct. 2024
  • One way to do that is by swapping the gold for a more liquid foreign exchange that is not subject to current sanctions.
    — CBS News, 24 Mar. 2022
  • The nation is reeling from the impact of the Covid-19 pandemic and the record plunge in oil, which accounts for more than 90% of its foreign exchange earnings.
    — Antony Sguazzin, Bloomberg.com, 28 Aug. 2020
  • Mining as a whole provides more than half of the country's foreign exchange revenue.
    — Torera Idowu, CNN, 22 Dec. 2017
  • In an unprecedented move, the People's Bank of China in late April cut the amount of foreign exchange banks must hold as reserves to 8% from 9%.
    — Laura He, CNN, 13 May 2022
  • Stripping out foreign exchange and deal making, sales rose 1%, thanks to a volume increase of 2%.
    — Sharon Terlep, WSJ, 19 Apr. 2018
  • By the start of March, Pakistan’s foreign exchange reserves dwindled to $3 billion—just enough for three weeks of imports.
    — Ananya Bhattacharya, Quartz, 21 Mar. 2023
  • The increase will force banks to deposit more foreign exchange assets, putting downward pressure on the yuan.
    — Ben Westcott, CNN, 2 June 2021
  • Max's two younger brothers also came to live with the Wabaunsees as foreign exchange students.
    — Richard Chin, Star Tribune, 22 Jan. 2021
  • But after the rent went up recently, there are now foreign exchange students and a young white couple in the small building.
    — Milton J. Valencia, BostonGlobe.com, 30 Nov. 2019
  • Ahead of the first-phase deadline on Oct. 31, the scheme drew some $19 billion into Argentina’s banks, the tax agency reported, boosting scarce foreign exchange reserves.
    — Isabel Debre, The Christian Science Monitor, 10 Dec. 2024
  • The dollar represents roughly 58% of the world’s foreign exchange reserves, according to the IMF and major commodities like oil are still primarily bought and sold using dollars.
    — Eleanor Pringle, Fortune, 30 Nov. 2024

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