'Change

'Change

See also: change, changé, chànge, and Cháng'é

English

Noun

'Change (uncountable)

1. (colloquial, obsolete) The stock exchange.
   • 1791, Charlotte Smith, Celestina, Broadview 2004, p. 257:

     [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 […] .

   • 1899 February, Joseph Conrad, “The Heart of Darkness”, in Blackwood’s Edinburgh Magazine, volume CLXV, number M, New York, N.Y.: The Leonard Scott Publishing Company, […], OCLC 1042815524, part I, page 194:

     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.