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change changé chànge Cháng'é English Etymology en exchange. Noun - en colloquial obsolete The stock exchange. en 1791 Charlotte Smith Celestina Broadview 2004 257 [M]y fatherwas 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. 1 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. 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. Derived terms en upon 'Change en on 'Change