Swap \Swap\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Swapped; p. pr. & vb. n.
   Swapping.] [OE. swappen to strike; cf. E. to strike a
   bargain; perh. akin to E. sweep. Cf. Swap a blow, Swap,
   v. i.] [Written also swop.]
   1. To strike; -- with off. [Obs. or Prov. Eng.] "Swap off his
      head!" --Chaucer.
      [1913 Webster]

   2. To exchange (usually two things of the same kind); to
      swop. [Colloq.] --Miss Edgeworth.
      [1913 Webster]

	

	swap
     n : an equal exchange; "we had no money so we had to live by
         barter" [syn: barter, swop, trade]
     v 1: exchange or give (something) in exchange for [syn: trade,
          swop, switch]
     2: move (a piece of a program) into memory, in computer science
     [also: swops, swopping, swopped, swapping, swapped]

	

	swapping
     See swap

	

	34 Moby Thesaurus words for "swapping":
   agency, backscratching, barter, bartering, brokerage,
   buying and selling, colossal, dealing, doing business, enormous,
   even trade, exchange, giant, gigantic, give-and-take,
   horse trading, immense, interchange, jobbing, jumbo, logrolling,
   mammoth, merchandising, pork barrel, retailing, swap, switch,
   trade, trading, trafficking, tremendous, wheeling and dealing,
   wholesaling, whopping

	

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        swap