R is said to be weakly exchange if there exists an idempotent e?em class="a-plus-plus">R such that e?em class="a-plus-plus">xR and 1?em class="a-plus-plus">e?1?em class="a-plus-plus">x)R or 1?em class="a-plus-plus">e?1+x)R. The ring R is said to be weakly exchange if all of its elements are weakly exchange. In this paper an element-wise characterization is given, and it is shown that weakly-Abel weakly exchange rings are weakly clean. Moreover, a relation between unit regular rings and weakly clean rings is also obtained." />