swap
to exchange, barter, or trade, as one thing for another: He swapped his wrist watch for the radio.
to substitute (one thing) for another (sometimes followed by in): Swap in red wine for white, since powerful nutrients are in the red grape's skin.
to replace (one thing) with another (sometimes followed by out): To cut down on fat, swap cream for milk.
to make an exchange.
an exchange: He got the radio in a swap.
Origin of swap
1- Also especially British, swop .
Other words from swap
- swapper, noun
- un·swapped, adjective
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How to use swap in a sentence
Only they swapped out the guitars in favor of trumpets and trombones.
Ohio State Marching Band Rock Out (With Their Tubas Out) | Alex Chancey, The Daily Beast Video | October 20, 2014 | THE DAILY BEASTThe moral duties and doubts of adulthood are swapped out for the histrionic creeds of adolescence.
Two New Films Preach Our Nation’s Corrosive Gridiron Gospel | Steve Almond | September 20, 2014 | THE DAILY BEASTDetainees from that facility were ultimately swapped for Bergdahl.
In 2008, the drug heparin was tied to dozens of deaths after most of the active ingredient was swapped with a counterfeit.
Was Krieger swapped with a clone during the fifth season finale?
‘Archer’ Creator Adam Reed on the Big Twist and the End of ‘Vice’ | Marlow Stern | April 22, 2014 | THE DAILY BEAST
The king sassed back as much as was safe for him, and then swapped around and lit into me again.
Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, Complete | Mark Twain (Samuel Clemens)The boys had ridden back, swapped them for their own, and hit the trail.
The Highgrader | William MacLeod RaineI laughed, discussed affairs of the day whimsically, and swapped anecdotes, as though out on a collegians holiday.
The Wasted Generation | Owen JohnsonHad a Testament in his pocket when he came aboard; in a week's time he had swapped it for a pack of cards.
Mark Twain, A Biography, 1835-1910, Complete | Albert Bigelow PaineHe swapped his neat suit of brown with a deck-hand, and received some particularly unkempt garments.
Blow The Man Down | Holman Day
British Dictionary definitions for swap
swop
/ (swɒp) /
to trade or exchange (something or someone) for another
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)
Origin of swap
1Derived forms of swap
- swapper or swopper, noun
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