(law, England & Wales, Northern Ireland, idiomatic) To formally contract to purchase, sell or otherwise be party to a disposition of an estate in land; usually requiring the payment of a deposit by one of the parties.

(law, England & Wales, Northern Ireland) The act of exchanging contracts.

The act of shooting at each other by antagonists armed with guns.

Third-person singular simple present indicative form of exchange contracts

simple past tense and past participle of exchange contracts

A website that acts as a broker between parties that want to place bets with each other, working on similar principles to a stock market.

(cryptography) An exchange of peers' keys at the initialization phase of connection.

(chemistry) the reversible process whereby ions are exchanged between a solution and a solid or gel; cation exchange is the process used in a water softener

A building that trades stocks in of companies for money and vice versa. / An organisation that trades stocks in of companies for money and vice versa.

any equipment that establishes connections between telephones / the rooms housing such equipment