An act of exchanging one thing for another. The swap of books between the two friends was beneficial for both.
A financial agreement in which two parties exchange the cash flows or liabilities from two different financial instruments. The company entered into a swap to hedge against interest rate fluctuations.
A place where people exchange items, often informally. The community center hosted a swap where residents could trade clothes and household items.
In computing, a space on a storage device used to hold data that the operating system moves out of main memory temporarily. When RAM was full, the system began writing pages to the swap.