[Vocabulary] Change Money or Exchange Money

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The two expressions are interchangeable ? or they are different ?
1.Change Money
2.Exchange Money

Is "Change money" to convert currency and "Exchange Money" to change a note or a coin into smaller coins ?
 
You go to a money changer to change money, not a money exchanger.
The amount you get follows the exchange rate.
 
[STRIKE]The two expressions are interchangeable ? or they are different ?
[/STRIKE]Are these two expressions interchangeable, or are they different?
Please note the correct way to ask your question.

As you have been told before, don't leave a space before a question mark.
 
That's a rather dated expression. I go to an exchange bureau,

Going to exchange bureaus, commonly called bureaux de change in Europe, is a rather dated activity. :) I use a debit card to draw local currency from an ATM.
 
Is "Change money" to convert currency and "Exchange Money" to change a note or a coin into smaller coins ?

No. You ask someone for change or to change a bill (AmE, "note" elsewhere). You go to a bureau de change to lose ten percent of your money through an unfavorable exchange rate.
 
That's a rather dated expression. I go to an exchange bureau,

The term 'money changer' is actually used widely in Asia.
 
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