"'Change" meaning in English

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Noun

Etymology: Aphetic form of exchange. Etymology templates: {{aphetic form|en|exchange}} Aphetic form of exchange Head templates: {{en-noun|-}} 'Change (uncountable)
  1. (colloquial, obsolete) The stock exchange. Tags: colloquial, obsolete, uncountable Derived forms: on 'Change
    Sense id: en-'Change-en-noun-dZjbRDcH Categories (other): English entries with incorrect language header, Pages with 1 entry, Pages with entries
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          "ref": "1791, Charlotte Smith, Celestina, Broadview, published 2004, page 257:",
          "text": "[M]y father […] was well enough contented to see that she did not behave ill to his children, that she brought him no more, and that she always had a plain dinner ready for him when he came from 'Change […].",
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          "ref": "1843 December 19, Charles Dickens, “Stave I. Marley’s Ghost.”, in A Christmas Carol. In Prose. Being a Ghost Story of Christmas, London: Chapman & Hall, […], →OCLC, page 1:",
          "text": "Marley was dead: to begin with. There is no doubt whatever about that. The register of his burial was signed by the clergyman, tlie clerk, the undertaker, and tlie chief mourner. Scrooge signed it: and Scrooge's name was good upon 'Change, for anything he chose to put his hand to.",
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          "text": "They sailed from Deptford, from Greenwich, from Erith, the adventurers and the settlers; kings’ ships and the ships of men on ’Change; captains, admirals, the dark “interlopers” of the Eastern trade, and the commissioned “generals” of East India fleets.",
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