How to Use foreign exchange in a Sentence

foreign exchange

noun
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  • Our country has to export more in order to earn more foreign exchange.
  • The increase will force banks to deposit more foreign exchange assets, putting downward pressure on the yuan.
    — Ben Westcott, CNN, 2 June 2021
  • Max's two younger brothers also came to live with the Wabaunsees as foreign exchange students.
    — Richard Chin, Star Tribune, 22 Jan. 2021
  • If nothing changes, this doomsday machine will devour the country’s foreign exchange.
    — Jacques De Larosière and Steve H. Hanke, WSJ, 21 Apr. 2021
  • While the show was being filmed, the Rihns had a foreign exchange student from Madrid living with them.
    — Deborah Martin, San Antonio Express-News, 31 Mar. 2021
  • Deprived of vital foreign exchange reserves, the country has struggled to maintain the value of its currency, the kwacha.
    — Jeremy Kahn, Fortune, 2 June 2021
  • The increase will force banks to hold more foreign exchange assets in reserve, thus tightening the supply of foreign currency on the market and putting downward pressure on the yuan.
    — Laura He, CNN, 4 June 2021
  • Travel restrictions have also reduced demand for the zero-fee foreign exchange rates that act as a key draw for several of Europe’s leading ‘neobanks’.
    — Paul-Noël Guély, Forbes, 2 June 2021
  • Organic sales – a key measure of sales excluding impacts from foreign exchange, mergers or acquisitions – climbed 4%.
    — Alexander Coolidge, The Enquirer, 20 Apr. 2021
  • Thiel and Pompeo also discussed whether Chinese foreign exchange students should be allowed to study in the United States.
    — Angel Au-Yeung, Forbes, 7 Apr. 2021
  • Instead, the foreign exchange market put on the brakes by raising the value of the dollar, stimulating imports and making our exports non-competitive.
    — Andrew Stuttaford, National Review, 3 Mar. 2021
  • Had the Mullahs with about $4billion in foreign exchange.
    — Noah Rothman, National Review, 17 Oct. 2023
  • China has the largest foreign exchange reserves in the world.
    — Ananya Bhattacharya, Quartz, 22 Sep. 2022
  • What if the creature was part of a foreign exchange program?
    — Chris Willman, Variety, 23 Apr. 2022
  • Hong Kong’s foreign exchange reserves are the world’s eight-largest.
    — Nicholas Gordon, Fortune, 24 Nov. 2022
  • The witness ran toward a group of foreign exchange students and asked them to call 911.
    — David Hernandez, San Diego Union-Tribune, 27 Nov. 2022
  • The steep rise in cases has roiled the foreign exchange markets, with the British pound sterling falling 0.3% against the dollar.
    — Sophie Mellor, Fortune, 13 Dec. 2021
  • Loan rates have moved up sharply, stock prices have dropped, and the dollar has strengthened in foreign exchange markets.
    — David Wilcox, CNN, 25 Oct. 2022
  • The money appears to have been raised from the bank’s foreign exchange reserves and an auction to importers.
    — Alexander Onukwue, Quartz, 29 Aug. 2022
  • Malawi devalued the kwacha by 25% in May to address a shortage of foreign exchange.
    — Karl Lester M Yap, Bloomberg.com, 12 Feb. 2023
  • One way to do that is by swapping the gold for a more liquid foreign exchange that is not subject to current sanctions.
    — CBS News, 24 Mar. 2022
  • In an unprecedented move, the People's Bank of China in late April cut the amount of foreign exchange banks must hold as reserves to 8% from 9%.
    — Laura He, CNN, 13 May 2022
  • By the start of March, Pakistan’s foreign exchange reserves dwindled to $3 billion—just enough for three weeks of imports.
    — Ananya Bhattacharya, Quartz, 21 Mar. 2023
  • The widening trade surplus has also helped China boost its foreign exchange reserves, already the largest in the world.
    — Laura He, CNN, 8 Nov. 2021
  • Daniil Rusanyuk is a 17-year-old Ukrainian foreign exchange student who has been studying in Texas for the past six months.
    — Michael Ruiz, Fox News, 27 Feb. 2022
  • His first posting was in the foreign exchange department.
    — Fortune, 22 Apr. 2022
  • Ken Cheung, chief Asian foreign exchange strategist at Mizuho Bank, said the meeting was a positive sign that the two sides were keen to find common ground.
    — Laura He, CNN, 15 Nov. 2022
  • To make payments in rubles, these gas purchasers will have to buy the currency first, either from the Central Bank of Russia or on the foreign exchange market.
    — Samanth Subramanian, Quartz, 24 Mar. 2022
  • This is a problem for China, which holds 56 percent of its foreign exchange reserves in U.S. dollar assets.
    — Emily Kilcrease, Foreign Affairs, 7 May 2024
  • The euro’s share of global foreign exchange reserves eroded and has now fallen below 20 percent.
    — Eswar Prasad, Foreign Affairs, 18 June 2024

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