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  • noun Plural form of swop.

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Examples

  • The curious thing is that the most valuable, and consequently the most sought after swops, are all paper.

    Kate Middleton's parents are years ahead | Victoria Coren 2011

  • It is also his generation that has been at the forefront of opposing the variants of misrule that the country has experienced, with Soyinka himself becoming an arrowhead of sorts from the moment he daringly swops the tape of the recorded speech of the Premier of Western Nigeria with his own denouncing the rigged elections.

    Reviewing WS 2006

  • It is also his generation that has been at the forefront of opposing the variants of misrule that the country has experienced, with Soyinka himself becoming an arrowhead of sorts from the moment he daringly swops the tape of the recorded speech of the Premier of Western Nigeria with his own denouncing the rigged elections.

    Archive 2006-09-01 2006

  • About 190 companies had applied to carry out asset swops and these had amounted to R42,1 billion, Manuel said.

    ANC Daily News Briefing 1998

  • The committee will investigate within a short period of time the various options open for compensatory land swops and will take the steps necessary to establish the butterfly reserve.

    ANC Daily News Briefing 1997

  • Ministry of Information and Broadcasting, while current Minister of Information Hidipo Hamutenya swops places and moves into the

    ANC Daily News Briefing 1993

  • This here feller goes down to the store, kep 'by the post-master, once a week an' swops off a hound for a pint o 'licker.

    The Starbucks Opie Percival Read 1895

  • Sez he, 'Umk-hmk! don' yer b'lieve it, honey; dey swops -- dey des 'swops places.

    The Heart of Old Hickory and Other Stories of Tennessee 1895

  • 'Betwin thy horse and mine, prithee, Tommy, what swops?

    Ancient Poems, Ballads, and Songs of the Peasantry of England Unknown 1833

  • You can have periods where mortgages are outperforming swops and vice-versa.

    unknown title 2011

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