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swap verb [ swɒp ]

• take part in an exchange of.
• "we swapped phone numbers"
Similar: bandy, exchange, trade, reciprocate, pass back and forth, give and take,

swap noun

• an act of exchanging one thing for another.
• "let's do a swap"
Similar: exchange, interchange, trade, barter, switch, trade-off, substitution,
Origin: Middle English (originally in the sense ‘throw forcibly’): probably imitative of a resounding blow. Current senses have arisen from an early use meaning ‘strike hands as a token of agreement’.


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