swap or swop(swɒp
)
Definitions
verb
Word forms: swaps, swapping, swapped, swops, swopping, swopped
- to trade or exchange (something or someone) for another
noun
- an exchange
- something that is exchanged
- Also called
swap option swaption finance a contract in which the parties to it exchange liabilities on outstanding debts, often exchanging fixed interest-rate for floating-rate debts (debt swap), either as a means of managing debt or in trading (swap trading)
Alternative Forms
ˈswapper ˈswopper nounWord Origin
C14 (in the sense: to shake hands on a bargain, strike): probably of imitative originSynonyms
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- British English:
swap
If you swap something with someone, you give it to them and receive a different thing in exchange.Next week they will swap places. He read his comic and I read mine. Then we swapped.swɒp VERB Next week they will swap places. He read his comic and I read mine. Then we swapped.
- Spanish:
intercambiar
v
- French:
échanger
vt
- German:
austauschen
v
- Chinese: 交换 v
- Arabic: يَتَبَادَلُ v
- Portuguese: trocar v
- Russian: обменивать v
- Croatian: zamijeniti v
- Czech: vyměnit v vyměňovat
- Danish: bytte v
- Dutch: ruilen v
- Finnish: vaihtaa jokin johonkin v
- Greek: ανταλλάσσω v
- Italian: scambiare v
- Japanese: 交換する v
- Korean: 바꾸다 v
- Norwegian: bytte v
- Polish: zamienić v zamieniać
- Brazilian Portuguese: trocar v
- European Spanish:
intercambiar
v
- Swedish: byta v
- Thai: แลกเปลี่ยน v
- Turkish: değiş tokuş etmek v
- Vietnamese: trao đổi v
Usage examples
There was no immediate family to look after her, so it was decided to swap a Russian prison for a British nursing home.
, The Endless Game (1986)There are ways to combat this sort of attack, such as overwriting swap files as the PGP program does.
New Scientist (1999)Maupin's captors say they're willing to swap him for Iraqis being held by U. S. forces.
CBC (2004)It never gets to the pitch where I think I'd swap everything to be anonymous.
Liverpool Daily Post and Echo (2005)A researcher in Stockholm could swap notes with a colleague in Rome.
, DOT.CON (2001)