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Definition of Swap

Swap

  1. To strike; -- with off.
  2. To exchange (usually two things of the same kind); to swop.
  3. To fall or descend; to rush hastily or violently.
  4. To beat the air, or ply the wings, with a sweeping motion or noise; to flap.
  5. A blow; a stroke.
  6. An exchange; a barter.
  7. Hastily.

Swap Quotations

I have friends in overalls whose friendship I would not swap for the favor of the kings of the world.
Thomas A. Edison

The Church has always been willing to swap off treasures in heaven for cash down.
Robert Green Ingersoll

The people who did the collateralized mortgage obligations, sold them to pension funds, then sold them short, then bought credit default swap insurance on them, are just amazing. They are a law unto themselves.
Ben Stein

Would I swap what I have achieved as a cook if I could have been as successful as a footballer? Definitely.
Gordon Ramsay

If you look back at my marathons and ask whether I would swap one of them for my one balls-up, of course I would. But you can't choose. You have to make the best of it on the day.
Paula Radcliffe
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Swap Translations

swap in Afrikaans is wissel, inruil
swap in Dutch is inruilen, ruilen, wisselen
swap in Finnish is vaihtaa
swap in German is wechseln, tauschen, Wechsel
swap in Portuguese is troca
swap in Spanish is trueque, cambiar, permuta, intercambio
swap in Swedish is byta

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