How to pronounce“swap”in English
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Definitions of “swap”
To exchange or give (something) in an non-normal exchange (for something else).
“In an effort to provide more permanent accommodations, employers may offer employees the opportunity either to swap jobs with a colleague or to transfer to a new position.”
To hit, to strike.
“And he whipped his sword out of its scabbard, and swapped off the pudding from the black knight's nose. Unfortunately (for him) he swapped off a good bit of the nose, too.”
An exchange of two comparable things.
“I e’en changed it, as occasion served, with the skippers o’ Dutch luggers and French vessels, for gin and brandy[…] a gude swap too, between what cheereth the soul of man and that which dingeth it clean out of his body”
A financial derivative in which two parties agree to exchange one stream of non-normal cashflow against another stream.