exchangestudent
nounUK /ɪksˈtʃeɪndʒ ˌstjuːdnt/
US /ɪksˈtʃeɪndʒ ˌstuːdnt/
A kid who goes to live and study in another country for a while.
My cousin is an exchange student in Japan this year.
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2. A student who swaps places with a student from a partner school.
The two schools traded exchange students for one semester.
3. A person on a short school trip to learn in a different place.
As an exchange student, she spent two weeks at a school in France.
4. A learner who joins a class abroad to practice a new language.
He became an exchange student in Spain to improve his Spanish.