swop
verb [ I or T ]
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Meaning of swop in English
swop | Business English
(Definition of swop from the Cambridge Business English Dictionary © Cambridge University Press)
Examples of swop
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In western society today, the idea that you survive by making swops between identities, rather than by joining a movement, has acquired the status of orthodoxy.
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I do not think one could regard it as a balanced swop.
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There is good ground for it, because it is in the nature of a swop.
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One does not swop somebody from one drug to another.
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Some people swop their conviction for a coffin.
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That shows how silly some of the fashionable whims and fads can be, when one swops from one side to the other.
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For indeed all that this masterpiece does is to swop one historical reference for another, and to jump seven years further back into the bargain.
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We have heard it very often said that you must not swop horses when crossing a stream.
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I would not swop my pair with him.
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We know that there have been atrocities, regrettably on both sides, and it would be neither useful nor instructive to swop atrocity stories.
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No doubt it is open to argument which would have been the better horse, but you cannot swop horses now.
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I am raising it from the standpoint of the whole problem, which is that you should not swop horses in the middle of the stream.
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It is not a cheap or easy task to swop engines from one aircraft to another.
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But would it be as good to "swop" horses while crossing the stream as to have the same team throughout?
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No one would swop over from oil to coal simply because the fuel tax remains.
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交換, 進行交換（主要用在英式英語中，同swap）…
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değiş tokuş etmek…
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échanger, échange…
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vyměnit si, výměna…
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bytte…
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menukarkan, pertukaran…
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แลกเปลี่ยน, การแลกเปลี่ยน…
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trao đổi, đổi chác, sự đánh đổi…
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tukar-menukar, pertukaran…
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tauschen, der Tausch…
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bytte, utveksle, skiftes om å…
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trocar…
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交换, 进行交换（主要用在英式英语中，同swap）…
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обмениваться…
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scambiare, scambio…
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intercambiar, intercambio, canje…
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