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   SWAP
   making cards, bookmarks, postcards, etc. It is up to the hostess. Also a theme is picked out for the swap. It is 'correct' to send the hostess a card or small gift.TAN (Email list subject line tag)
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   Swap
   An arrangement whereby two companies lend to each other on different terms, e.g. in different currencies, and/or at different interest rates, fixed or floating.
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   Swap
   Is a customized financial transaction between two or more counterparties. However, banks or brokerage firms often act as intermediaries or assume some of the risk of the total transaction as well. A swap is engineered between counterparties who agree to make periodic payments or adjusts to one another. Swaps cover interest rate, equity, commodity and currency products. They can be simple floating for fixed exchanges or complex hybrid products with multiple option features. Swaps are not exclusiv...
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   Swap
   An interest rate, currency or equity exchange transaction involving two parties. In the case of an interest rate swap, one party is obliged to pay a fixed interest rate to the other party in return for a floating interest rate. In the case of a currency swap, one party is obliged to make payments in another specified currency.
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   Swap
   A forward type of contractual agreement to exchange one type of cash flow or asset for another, according to predetermined rules.
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   Swap
   An instrument designed to permit investors to exchange interest rate and/or currency risk on a notional loan for their mutual benefit.
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   [v] - move (a piece of a program) into memory, in computer science
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   SWAP
   Shared Wireless Access Protocol
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   Swap
   A swap is an agreement in which two parties agree to exchange a pre-determined series of payments over a fixed period of time.
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    SWAP
    (In topic `Knowledge, Document, Workflow & Content Management`) SWAP is an acronym for the IETF`s ‘Simple Workflow Access Protocol.` It provides a way to start a process instance or a workflow process. (see IETF)
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    Swap
    In LME terms,the exchange of an open futures contract for some other form of collateral. It could be swapped for another futures contract, for an option contract or for physical material.
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    Swap
    Traditionally the exchange of one security for another to change the maturities of a bond... <a target=_blank href='http://www.finance-glossary.com/terms/swap.htm?id=1389&ginPtrCode=00000&PopupMode=false' title='Read full definition of swap'>more</a>
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    swap
    (operating system) To move a program from fast-access memory to a slow-access memory ('swap out'), or vice versa ('swap in'). The term often refers specifically to the use of a hard disk (or a swap file) as virtual memory or 'swap space'. When a program is to be executed, possibly as determined by a scheduler, it is swapped into core for processin...
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    swap
    a forward purchase or sale of foreign exchange and the simultaneous covering transaction by the sale or purchase of spot currency Category: Financial affairs - taxation - customs • to keep a job on backing store and periodically transfer it to main memory for execution during a specifically allocated period of time Category: Automation (includes telecommunications and computers)...
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    swap
    Exchange of a stream of payments over time agreed by two counterparties; normally used to transform market exposure from one interest rate base to another or one currency to another. See also currency swap
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    Swap
    Definition (keystage 2) To change the places of two things.
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    Swap
    Swap transitive verb [ imperfect & past participle Swapped ; present participle & verbal noun Swapping .] [ Middle English swappen to strike; confer E. to strike a bargain; perhaps akin to English sweep . Confer Swap a blow, Swap , intransitive verb ] [ Written also swop ...
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    Swap
    Swap intransitive verb [ Confer Swap , transitive verb ] 1. To fall or descend; to rush hastily or violently. C. Richardson (Dict.). « All suddenly she swapt adown to ground.» Chaucer. 2. To beat the air, or ply the wings, with a sweeping motion or noise; to flap.
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    Swap
    Swap noun [ Confer German schwapp , noun , a slap, swap, schwapp , schwapps , interj., slap! smack! and English swap , v.t.] 1. A blow; a stroke. [ Obsolete or Prov. Eng.] 2. An exchange; a barter. [ Colloq.] Sir W. Scott.
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    Swap
    Swap adverb [ See Swap , noun ] Hastily. [ Prov. Eng.]
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    swap
    swop verb exchange or give (something) in exchange for
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    Swap
    `Swap` can refer generically to the exchanging of one thing for another; see also Barter.
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    Swap
    • (v. i.) To strike; -- with off. • (n.) An exchange; a barter. • (n.) A blow; a stroke. • (v. i.) To exchange (usually two things of the same kind); to swop. • (v. t.) To beat the air, or ply the wings, with a sweeping motion or noise; to flap. • (v. t.) To fall or descend; to rush hastily or violently. • (n.) Ha...
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    Swap
    An arrangement in which two entities lend to each other on different terms, e.g., in different currencies, and/or at different interest rates, fixed or floating.
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    Swap
    An agreement where two companies give each other loans, but on different terms. Discover What It’s Like to Live Easy With EquiTrend
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