Our policies and systems are getting outdated and need revising, but to try to swap horses while crossing a stream might be dangerous.
Source: tatoeba (28879)
Swap
//sʋap//
Synonyms for "swap" (122 found)
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Closest matches (25)
Strong matches (36)
Related words (61)
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6 entriesderived
40 entriesShowing 16 of 40 words.
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1 entrieshas context
4 entriesmanner of
1 entriesrelated to
18 entriesShowing 16 of 18 words.
Translations
120 translations across 34 languages.
Afrikaans
2 entries- ruil noun (exchange)
- ruil verb (exchange or give (something) in exchange for)
Arabic
1 entries- مُبَادَلَة verb (exchange or give (something) in exchange for)
Armenian
1 entries- փոխանակում noun (exchange)
Bulgarian
3 entries- размяна noun (exchange)
- смяна noun (exchange)
- разменям verb (exchange or give (something) in exchange for)
Catalan
4 entries- barata noun (exchange)
- bescanvi noun (exchange)
- troc noun (exchange)
- baratar verb (exchange or give (something) in exchange for)
Chinese Mandarin
4 entries- 交換 /交换 noun (exchange)
- 對調 /对调 noun (exchange)
- 掉期 noun (finance: derivative)
- 調換 /调换 noun (exchange)
Cornish
1 entries- keschanjya verb (exchange or give (something) in exchange for)
Czech
4 entries- swap noun (finance: derivative)
- výměna noun (exchange)
- prohodit verb (exchange or give (something) in exchange for)
- vyměnit verb (exchange or give (something) in exchange for)
Dutch
3 entries- ruil noun (exchange)
- ruilen verb (exchange or give (something) in exchange for)
- wisselen verb (exchange or give (something) in exchange for)
Finnish
4 entries- swap noun (finance: derivative)
- vaihto noun (exchange)
- vaihtokauppa noun (exchange)
- vaihtosopimus noun (finance: derivative)
French
2 entries- échange noun (exchange)
- permuter verb (exchange or give (something) in exchange for)
Georgian
1 entries- გაცვლა verb (exchange or give (something) in exchange for)
German
4 entries- Swap noun (finance: derivative)
- Tausch noun (exchange)
- Tauschgeschäft noun (exchange)
- austauschen verb (exchange or give (something) in exchange for)
Greek
2 entries- ανταλλαγή noun (exchange)
- ανταλλάσσω verb (exchange or give (something) in exchange for)
Hungarian
4 entries- csere noun (exchange)
- cserél verb (exchange or give (something) in exchange for)
- elcserél verb (exchange or give (something) in exchange for)
- kicserél verb (exchange or give (something) in exchange for)
Italian
4 entries- baratto noun (exchange)
- permuta noun (exchange)
- permuta noun (finance: derivative)
- scambio noun (exchange)
Japanese
4 entries- スワップ noun (exchange)
- スワップ noun (finance: derivative)
- 交換 noun (exchange)
- 取り替え noun (exchange)
Khmer
1 entries- ប្តូរ verb (exchange or give (something) in exchange for)
Korean
2 entries- 교환 noun (exchange)
- 교환하다 verb (exchange or give (something) in exchange for)
Latvian
2 entries- maiņa noun (exchange)
- mainīt verb (exchange or give (something) in exchange for)
Maltese
2 entries- bdil noun (exchange)
- partat verb (exchange or give (something) in exchange for)
Māori
4 entries- kurutete noun (exchange)
- whiti noun (exchange)
- kurutete verb (exchange or give (something) in exchange for)
- whakawhiti verb (exchange or give (something) in exchange for)
Norman
1 entries- trotchi verb (exchange or give (something) in exchange for)
Occitan
2 entries- escambi noun (exchange)
- escambiar verb (exchange or give (something) in exchange for)
Polish
4 entries- swap noun (exchange)
- swap noun (finance: derivative)
- zamiana noun (exchange)
- zamieniać verb (exchange or give (something) in exchange for)
Portuguese
4 entries- swap noun (finance: derivative)
- troca noun (exchange)
- intercambiar verb (exchange or give (something) in exchange for)
- trocar verb (exchange or give (something) in exchange for)
Russian
4 entries- ме́на noun (exchange)
- обме́н noun (exchange)
- своп noun (finance: derivative)
- махну́ться verb (exchange or give (something) in exchange for)
Spanish
4 entries- cambalache noun (exchange)
- canje noun (exchange)
- permuta noun (exchange)
- permuta noun (finance: derivative)
Swedish
1 entries- byta verb (exchange or give (something) in exchange for)
Tagalog
4 entries- baligyaan noun (exchange)
- palitan noun (exchange)
- magbaligyaan verb (exchange or give (something) in exchange for)
- magpalitan verb (exchange or give (something) in exchange for)
Tonga (Zambia)
1 entries- cincana verb (exchange or give (something) in exchange for)
Turkish
3 entries- takas noun (exchange)
- değiştirmek verb (exchange or give (something) in exchange for)
- takas etmek verb (exchange or give (something) in exchange for)
Vietnamese
2 entries- sự giao hoán noun (exchange)
- giao hoán verb (exchange or give (something) in exchange for)
Welsh
1 entries- ymgyfnewid verb (exchange or give (something) in exchange for)
Sample sentences
18 total sentences available.
We have no other alternative but to swap horses midstream and inject a fresh atmosphere and new ideas into our organization.
Source: tatoeba (59637)
Never swap horses while crossing a stream.
Source: tatoeba (325457)
Er, could we swap mobile numbers next time?
Source: tatoeba (326792)
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