swap

IPA: swˈɑp

noun

  • An exchange of two comparable things.
  • (finance) A financial derivative in which two parties agree to exchange one stream of cashflow against another stream.
  • (computing, informal, uncountable) Space available in a swap file for use as auxiliary memory.
  • (Cambridge University slang) A social meal at a restaurant between two university societies, usually involving drinking and banter; commonly associated with fining and pennying; equivalent to a crewdate at Oxford University.
  • (obsolete, UK, dialect) A blow; a stroke.

verb

  • (transitive) To exchange or give (something) in an exchange (for something else).
  • (transitive, obsolete) To hit, to strike.
  • (transitive, obsolete) To beat the air, or ply the wings, with a sweeping motion or noise; to flap.
  • (intransitive, obsolete) To descend or fall; to rush hastily or violently.
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Examples of "swap" in Sentences

  • The host always offers the swap.
  • In order to swap the two, add the line.
  • Also, these words sometimes swap meanings.
  • But the net price of the swap is unchanged.
  • Many of the moves involve the swapping of partners.
  • To be swapped, the blameless dead for the guilty living.
  • Swap the labels on the doors and the solution is the same.
  • It was the only highway transferred to the county as part of the swap.
  • He was accused of switching price labels and swapping fake furs for real furs.
  • There was an exchange of official documents between the two sides for a swap of two spies.

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