swap
An exchange of two comparable thingsAn exchange of two comparable things.
» Would you like to swap jobs?
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5 sensesAn exchange of two comparable things.
Tausch, Tauschgeschäft
обме́нobmén, ме́наména
an equal exchange
A financial derivative in which two parties agree to exchange one stream of non-normal cashflow against another stream.
Swap
свопsvop
(informal, uncountable)Space available in a swap file for use as auxiliary memory.
How much swap do you need?
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.
(UK, countable, dialectal, obsolete, uncountable)A blow; a stroke.
Examples
68 sentencesWould you like to swap jobs?
Do you want to swap jobs?
ruХочешь махнуться работами? — odexed
Would you like to swap places?
Do you want to swap places?
Tom told us to swap seats.
Translations
8 languagesBy meaning 2
By meaning 2
Origin
From the verb swap. First attested in 1620. From Middle English swap, swappe (“a blow, stFrom the verb swap. First attested in 1620.
From Middle English swap, swappe (“a blow, strike, lash from a whip”), from the verb (see Etymology 1 above).
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Forms
plural: swapsSynonyms
4 synonymsWord family
33 related wordsLessons for this word
1 lessons- A1Countable and uncountable nouns — Because it can be uncountable