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swap English

Meaning swap meaning

What does swap mean?
Definitions in simple English

swap Verb

— If you swap one thing for another, you give one thing to somebody and they give you the other thing. I like your pencil and you like my pen. Let's swap, shall we?

swap Noun

— A swap is an exchange. I think that our swap was a bad idea.

swap

— verb (= trade) exchange or give (something) in exchange for — verb move (a piece of a program) into memory, in computer science — noun (= barter) an equal exchange we had no money so we had to live by barter

Synonyms swap synonyms

What other words have the same or similar meaning as swap?

swap English » English

exchange trade barter interchange switch swop change substitute replace transfer truck share convert conversion transition transaction transact trade-off trade with one another tit for tat take switching switch over swapping supersession substitution something exchanged shunt shop shifting shift sell replacing replacement reciprocity quid pro quo permute permutation mix up mistake make different make a trade go past dealings counterchange contract commute commutate changing change-out

Topics swap topics

What do people use swap to talk about?
Work and occupation Finance Financial transaction

Exchange, trade

Conjugation swap conjugation

How do you conjugate swap?

swap · verb

Examples swap examples

How do I use swap in a sentence?

Simple sentences

Ah, could we swap our mobile numbers next time?
Never swap horses while crossing a stream.
Do you want to swap jobs?

Movie subtitles

Therefore, the swap must have occurred at the funeral home.
Can we swap?
Sit with him and Grandma and we'll swap later.
Yeah, but tain't a fair swap.
We'll get together and swap stories.
You mean, like a swap.
You made a swap with a bad tangle in it.
Swap horses in midstream.
Wait till the other party arrives and swap.
He wanted to swap it.
Swap it?
We used to swap shots between drinks or drinks between shots.
Maybe we could swap rooms.
I even saw a man try to swap a steer for half a sack of flour.
Suppose it's yours. - You want to swap mine for his?
What is it, the Victoria swap shop?
I've been doing it for two months. - I saw a man swap a steer for flour.
Swap it for what?
So they swap murders.
Swap murders?
It won't be robbing her. It'll simply be a swap.
Let's swap jobs.
To swap mosquitoes? No, thanks.
I'll swap you something for the knife.
Sit with him and Grandma, and we'll swap around later.
I wouldn't swap my cards for yours.
My plane isn't big enough to handle the job so if you wanna chip in a couple of hundred bucks apiece I'll swap my plane in for a secondhand twin-motor job and.
Do you have any nice cast-Iron I can swap for this mattress?
Comes direct from Carnahan's Swap Shop on Atlantic Avenue.
I had to swap even. - Even?
A charm swap?
If you only knew how busy we are. Let's swap jobs.
Tomorrow, we swap our gold bars for nice little banknotes.

News and current affairs

He agreed to swap Palestinian prisoners for an abducted soldier, Gilad Shalit; but, for Netanyahu, as for most Israelis, negotiating with an organization whose blatantly anti-Semitic charter rejects Israel's right to exist is pointless.
In recent years, the international financial system has become increasingly fragmented, exemplified in the proliferation of bilateral and multilateral currency-swap arrangements.
Swap contracts involve pre-committed resources, which are not transferred to an international organization with a specific institutional mission.
Instead, foreign-exchange reserves - that is, liquidity in currencies accepted for international payments - are held in national agencies until a swap's activation.
This means that there is no guarantee that, in the event of a crisis, a central bank will actually provide the swap line it has pledged, at least not without attaching political strings.
Clearly, the world's ever-expanding network of currency-swap arrangements is far from a reliable mechanism for responding to crisis.
The Greek government has asked Europe to swap existing debts with new debts to lock in low interest rates and long maturities.
When companies go bankrupt, a debt-equity swap is a fair and efficient solution.
With the Gaza Strip in its backyard, Egypt has already mediated several times between Hamas and Fatah, and has been trying, so far unsuccessfully, to arrange a swap of prisoners with Israel following Hamas's abduction of Israeli soldier Gilad Shalit.
Forcing a debt-for-equity swap or debt forgiveness would be no greater a violation of private property rights than a massive bailout.
Perjanjian currency-swap, yang penting bagi Brasil dan Argentina, juga perlu diperhitungkan.
For a few countries, the main central banks have provided access to liquidity through swap lines.
But the very existence of the EMF would distort credit-default swap spreads and yield differentials among EMF members.
Qualification or disqualification with respect to the use of IMF or other credit facilities (for example, central banks' swap lines).
Others, more numerous, deplore the disparity in numbers in the swap.
In managing the 2008 crisis, foreign banks' dependence on US-dollar funding constituted a major weakness, and required the provision of large swap lines by the Federal Reserve.
For starters, the Fed rejected applications from some countries - whose names are redacted in the published transcript - to join the currency-swap scheme.
As during the Great Depression and in many debt restructurings, it makes sense in the current contingency to mandate partial debt forgiveness or a debt-for-equity swap in the financial sector.
For example, at the first trilateral summit, held in May 2008, as the global economic crisis was gathering pace, currency-swap arrangements were agreed upon among the three powers.
Given this background, it is quite possible that this time Iranian domestic politics will not undermine a new agreement to swap Iranian LEU for fuel rods for the TRR.
Many new services that allow us to swap, rent, and share everything from taxi rides to second-hand designer dresses are struggling to get off the ground.

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