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American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition

  1. v. To trade one thing for another.
  2. v. To exchange (one thing) for another.
  3. n. An exchange of one thing for another.
  4. n. A contract in which two parties agree to exchange periodic interest payments, especially when one payment is at a fixed rate and the other varies according to the performance of a reference rate, such as the prime rate.

Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia

  1. To strike; beat.
  2. To chop: used with reference to cutting wheat in a peculiar way.
  3. To strike; aim a blow.
  4. To move swiftly; rush.
  5. To fall down.
  6. n. A blow; a stroke.
  7. n. A swoop.
  8. n. A fall.
  9. At a snatch; hastily; with hasty violence.
  10. To exchange; barter.
  11. To barter; exchange.
  12. n. An act of swapping; a barter; an exchange.

Wiktionary

  1. n. A roughly equal exchange of two comparable things.
  2. n. finance A financial derivative in which two parties agree to exchange one stream of cashflow against another stream.
  3. v. obsolete To strike, hit.
  4. v. To exchange or give (something) in an exchange (for something else).

GNU Webster's 1913

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

WordNet 3.0

  1. v. exchange or give (something) in exchange for
  2. v. move (a piece of a program) into memory, in computer science
  3. n. an equal exchange

Etymologies

  1. Uncertain, probably from imitative origin. (Wiktionary)
  2. Middle English swappen, to strike, strike the hands together in closing a bargain. (American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition)

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synonyms (10)

Words with the same meaning

  1. swop
  2. flap
  1. blow
  2. stroke
  1. exchange
  2. barter
  1. hastily
  2. trade
  1. quid pro quo
  2. switch

hypernyms (3)

Words that are more generic or abstract

  1. interchange
  1. change
  1. exchange

same context (22)

Words that are found in similar contexts

  1. currency
  2. equity
  3. derivative
  4. option
  1. bond
  2. volatility
  3. contract
  4. asset
  1. coupon
  2. mortgage
  3. benchmark
  4. lease
  1. arbitrage
  2. premium
  3. yield
  4. transaction
  1. index
  2. maturities
  3. warranty
  4. default
  1. maturity
  2. cash

rhymes (27)

Words with the same terminal sound

  1. Bopp
  2. Pop
  3. atop
  4. bop
  5. chop
  1. cop
  2. crop
  3. drop
  4. flop
  5. glop
  1. hop
  2. knop
  3. lop
  4. mop
  5. nonstop
  1. op
  2. opp
  3. plop
  4. pop
  5. prop
  1. shop
  2. shoppe
  3. slop
  4. sop
  5. stop
  1. top
  2. wop

reverse dictionary (10)

Words that contain this word in their definition

  1. swop
  2. swab
  1. dicker
  2. swaption
  1. exchange
  2. certitude
  1. switch
  2. chop
  1. scourse
  2. truck

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