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.
- I feel a swap is good if I can find anyone interested?
- 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.
- The caps will go into effect 60 days after the agency defines the term "swap."
- There was an exchange of official documents between the two sides for a swap of two spies.
- The reason a hot swap is needed is that that disk is locked (i. e encrypted) when the xbox is off.
- The job swap is obvious, give counterfeiting to the FBI and counter-terrorism to the Secret Service. alan Says:
- Clothing left over at the end of the swap is donated to Project H.O.M.E. a non-profit organization helping the homeless in Philadelphia.
- And now comes Woodward, who said yesterday the longed-for swap is "on the table" and could happen "if the president's a little weak going into 2012 ...."
- You cannot simply swap from the hypothetical ( "could it have possibly been worse for Wales?") to the empirical ( "it wasn't worse for other countries") when it suits.
- If smaller, proprietary trading groups are classified as swap dealers, they would be subject to more onerous capital charges, throwing a potential roadblock in plans to expand into the evolving swaps market.
- The term swap execution facility is broadly defined and includes "any means of interstate commerce" used to offer multiple participants the ability to execute or trade swaps by accepting bids and offers made by other participants.
- But proprietary trading groups could be tripped up if they are classified as "swap dealers"—a term that is yet to be firmly defined but which is expected to include dealer banks because they are one side of nearly every swap trade.
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