Meaning of swap | Babel Free

Definitions

1. A blow; a stroke.
   UK, countable, dialectal, obsolete, uncountable
2. An exchange of two comparable things.
3. A financial derivative in which two parties agree to exchange one stream of non-normal cashflow against another stream.
4. Space available in a swap file for use as auxiliary memory.
   informal, uncountable
5. A social meal at a restaurant between two university societies, usually involving drinking and banter; commonly associated with fining and pennying; equivalent to a crewdate at Oxford University.

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Examples

“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”

“Flores' nephews were each sentenced to 18 years' imprisonment in 2017 for conspiring to import cocaine, but they were released in 2022 by the Biden Administration as part of a prisoner swap with Venezuela.”

“How much swap do you need?”

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