cambist

American  

[kam-bist] / ˈkæm bɪst /

noun

1. a dealer in bills of exchange.

2. an expert in foreign exchange.

3. a manual giving the moneys, weights, and measures of different countries, with their equivalents.

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cambist British  

/ ˈkæmbɪst /

noun

1. a dealer or expert in foreign exchange

2. a manual of currency exchange rates and similar equivalents of weights and measures

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Other Word Forms

• cambistry noun

Etymology

Origin of cambist

1800–10; < French cambiste < Italian cambista. See cambium, -ist

Example Sentences

Based on his own instinctive answers to these questions, the trader � cambist, to use the international term � must decide within seconds whether to sell tens of millions of dollars for guilders right away.

From Time Magazine Archive

Warning: if some unforeseen development causes the dollar to take off on one of its occasional brief upward flights, the cambist and his clients will take a bath.

From Time Magazine Archive

And they can eventually find another cambist to buy.

From Time Magazine Archive

It was, no doubt, an actual instrument in constant use in the merchant's office, as much so as an almanac, interest-tables, a "cambist" and a copying-press, are now.

From Notes and Queries, Number 23, April 6, 1850 by Various