cambism

1. (rare) The business of currency exchange.Examples: "He will there find observations on trading correspondence, and the art of letter writing, on the authors who have written pro forma invoices, bills, &c.; those on law, on cambism, and the operations in exchanges."; "... to misconception of the involutions of cambism, underlying the assumptions of the Chancellor of the Exchequer, as expressed in his speech on the Gold Standard Bill on May 4, 1925."; "A more hybrid approach, e.g. Spraos [1972], is that Cambism may on the whole be realistic when speculation is not rife."rareuncountable