"cambistry" meaning in All languages combined

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          "ref": "1908, William Tate, Tate's Modern Cambist, page v:",
          "text": "The science of exchange, or, to use the old word, cambistry, has always been a subject of great importance.",
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          "ref": "1991, Glenn Gaywaine Munn, Charles J. Woelfel, The St. James Encyclopedia of Banking & Finance, page 157:",
          "text": "Cambistry involves a knowledge of various countries of the world; weights, measures, and fineness of metals used as a basis of coinage in various countries; methods of dealing in bullion; assaying operations; issuance of bills of exchange, international checks, and postal money orders; commercial parities; and computations in the arbitration of exchange.",
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