cambist

From French cambiste, Italian cambista, from Latin cambire (“to exchange”). See change.

• IPA^(key): /ˈkæmbɪst/

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cambist (plural cambists)

1. A banker; a money changer or broker; one who deals in bills of exchange, or who is skilled in the science of exchange.

• cambistry

• “cambist”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.