English

Alternative forms

• swop

Noun

swap ‎(countable and uncountable, plural swaps)

Alice has a red apple and Bob has a green apple. After a swap, Alice has the green apple and Bob has the red apple.

1. An exchange of two comparable things.

   (Can we find and add a quotation of Sir Walter Scott to this entry?)

2. (finance) A financial derivative in which two parties agree to exchange one stream of cashflow against another stream.
3. (obsolete, Britain, dialect) A blow; a stroke.
4. (computing, informal, uncountable) Space available in a swap file for use as auxiliary memory.

   How much swap do you need?‎

Derived terms

Synonyms

• barter
• trade
• quid pro quo

Translations

Verb

swap ‎(third-person singular simple present swaps, present participle swapping, simple past and past participle swapped)

1. To exchange or give (something) in an exchange (for something else).
   • 1998, Michael Wolf; Bruce Friedman, Daniel Sutherland, Religion in the workplace, page 98:

     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.

   • 2007, Lloyd Zimpel, A Season of Fire and Ice:

     Chief watched these goings-on without pleasure, and waved them off in disgust when the smarmiest of the two suggested he might wish to swap that elk's tooth for this jug of fine rye whiskey.

   • 2011, Andrew Scott Cooper, The Oil Kings: How the U.S., Iran, and Saudi Arabia Changed the Balance of Power in the Middle East, page 253:

     The Shah wanted to swap oil for more arms.

2. (obsolete) To strike, hit.
   • 1485, Sir Thomas Malory, chapter xvij, in Le Morte Darthur, book VI:

     And soo sir launcelot rode on the one syde and she on the other / he had not ryden but a whyle / but the knyghte badde sir Launcelot torne hym and loke behynde hym / […] / And soo sir launcelot torned hym […] / and there wyth was the knyghte and the lady on one syde / & sodenly he swapped of his ladyes hede

3. (obsolete) To fall or descend; to rush hastily or violently.

   (Can we find and add a quotation of C. Richardson (Dict.) to this entry?)

   • (Can we date this quote?), Geoffrey Chaucer, (Please provide the title of the work):

     All suddenly she swapt adown to ground.

4. (obsolete) To beat the air, or ply the wings, with a sweeping motion or noise; to flap.

Derived terms

• swap in, swap out

Synonyms

• (exchange): exchange, trade, switch

Translations

Anagrams

• paws
• waps
• wasp
• WSPA

Finnish

Etymology

From English swap.

Noun

swap

1. (finance, slang) swap (financial derivative)

Declension

Synonyms

• vaihtosopimus

Derived terms

• verbs: swapata