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.