2024-01-05 09:36:23
The use of the verb change with the meaning of ‘return a purchase’ is appropriate.
After the Christmas holidays and with the arrival of sales, many people go to stores to return products they bought or were given as gifts. To refer to this, the verb is often used changerejected by those who believe that in this case it would be necessary to use change: “If you want to exchange the product you have purchased, you will only have to put it back in the bag with that completed return form”, “The only thing that cannot be exchanged are the appliances” or “What is the deadline to exchange an article?”.
However, as indicated by Panhispanic dictionary of doubtsthis sense of changeequivalent to ‘return a purchase’, is not considered incorrect because It is nothing more than undoing a previous change made at the time of acquisition forks a very widespread use in the colloquial language in Spain.
Therefore, the above examples can be considered appropriate.
In large areas of American Spanish it is also used changebut with another meaning collected both in the Dictionary of the Spanish language as in the Dictionary of Americanisms: ‘Convert large bills or coins into equivalent small money or vice versa’.
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