swap

Main Entry:
substitution
Part of Speech: noun
Definition: replacement
Synonyms: change, exchange, swap, trade
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Main Entry: exchange
Part of Speech: noun, verb
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Adjectives:
acting, commercial, for sale, fungible, in the market, interchangeable, marketable, mercantile, retail, staple, subdititious, substituted, trading, vicarious, vice, wholesale
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Concept: Barter.
Category: 3. Interchange of Property
Synonyms:
-nouns
barter, exchange, scorse, truck system; interchange., a Roland for an Oliver; quid pro quo; commutation, composition; Indian gift [U.S.]., trade, commerce, mercature, buying and selling, bargain and sale; traffic, business, nundination, custom, shopping; commercial enterprise, speculation, jobbing, stockjobbing, agiotage, brokery., dealing, transaction, negotiation, bargain., free trade.
-verbs
barter, exchange, truck, scorse, swop; interchange; commutate (substitute); compound for., trade, traffic, buy and sell, give and take, nundinate; carry on a trade, ply a trade, drive a trade; be in business, be in the city; keep a shop, deal in, employ one's capital in., trade with, deal with, have dealings with; transact business with, do business with; open an account with, keep an account with., bargain; drive a bargain, make a bargain; negotiate, bid for; haggle, higgle; dicker [U.S.]; chaffer, huckster, cheapen, beat down; stickle, stickle for; outbid, underbid; ask, charge; strike a bargain (contract)., speculate, give a sprat to catch a herring; buy in the cheapest and sell in the dearest market; rig the market, stag the market.
-adjectives
commercial, mercantile, trading; interchangeable, marketable, staple, in the market, for sale., wholesale, retail.
-adverbs
across the counter.
-phrases
cambio non e furto.
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Concept: [Difference at different times] Change.
Category: 1. SIMPLE CHANGE
Synonyms:
-nouns
change, alteration, mutation, permutation, variation, modification, modulation, inflexion, mood, qualification, innovation, metastasis, deviation, turn, evolution, revolution; diversion; break., transformation, transfiguration; metamorphosis; transmutation; deoxidization; transubstantiation; mutagenesis, transanimation, transmigration, metempsychosis; avatar; alterative., conversion (gradual change); revolution (sudden or radical change); inversion (reversal); displacement; transference., changeableness; tergiversation (change of mind).
-verbs
change, alter, vary, wax and wane; modulate, diversify, qualify, tamper with; turn, shift, veer, tack, chop, shuffle, swerve, warp, deviate, turn aside, evert, intervert; pass to, take a turn, turn the corner, resume., work a change, modify, vamp, superinduce; transform, transfigure, transmute, transmogrify, transume; metamorphose, ring the changes., innovate, introduce new blood, shuffle the cards; give a turn to, give a color to; influence, turn the scale; shift the scene, turn over a new leaf., recast; reverse; disturb; convert into.
-adjectives
changed; newfangled; changeable; transitional; modifiable; alterative.
-adverbs
mutatis mutandis ["The necessary changes having been made" (Latin)].
-phrases
"a change came o'er the spirit of my dream" [Byron]; nous avons changé tout cela [Molière. "We have changed all that" (French)]; tempora mutantur nos et mutamur in illis ["The times are changed even as we are changed in them" (Latin)]; non sum qualis eram [Horace. "I am not as I used to be" (Latin)]; casaque tourner; corpora lente augescent cito extinguuntur [Tacitus. "Bodies grow slowly but are snuffed out quickly" (Latin)]; in statu quo ante bellum ["In the state in which it was before the war" (Latin)]; "still ending and beginning still" [Cowper]; vox audita perit littera scripta manet ["The voice heard vanishes, the letter written
Antonyms: permanence
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Concept: [Double or mutual change] Interchange.
Category: 1. SIMPLE CHANGE
Synonyms:
-nouns
interchange, exchange; commutation, permutation, intermutation; reciprocation, transposition, shuffling; alternation, reciprocity; castling [at chess]; hocus-pocus., interchangeableness, interchangeability., barter; tit for tat (retaliation); cross fire, battledore and shuttlecock; quid pro quo.
-verbs
interchange, exchange, counterchange; bandy, transpose, shuffle, change bands, swap, permute, reciprocate, commute; give and take, return the compliment; play at puss in the corner, play at battledore and shuttlecock; retaliate; requite.
-adjectives
interchanged; reciprocal, mutual, commutative, interchangeable, intercurrent., substituted; vicarious, subdititious.
-adverbs
in exchange, vice versa, mutatis mutandis, backwards and forwards, by turns, turn and turn about; each in his turn, everyone in his turn., instead; in place of, in lieu of, in the stead of, in the room of; faute de mieux.
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Concept: Substitute.
Category: 2. Subservience to ends; actual subservience
Synonyms:
-nouns
substitute; deputy; badli.
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Concept: [Change of one thing for another] Substitution.
Category: 1. SIMPLE CHANGE
Synonyms:
-nouns
substitution, commutation; supplanting; metaphor, metonymy (figure of speech)., [Thing substituted] substitute, ersatz, makeshift, temporary expedient, replacement, succedaneum; shift, pis aller, stopgap, jury rigging, jury mast, locum tenens, warming pan, dummy, scapegoat; double; changeling; quid pro quo, alternative., representative (deputy); palimpsest., price, purchase money, consideration, equivalent.
-verbs
substitute, put in the place of, change for; make way for, give place to; supply the place of, take the place of; supplant, supersede, replace, cut out, serve as a substitute; step into the shoes of, stand in the shoes of; jury rig, make a shift with, put up with; borrow from Peter to pay Paul, take money out of one pocket and put it in another, cannibalize; commute, redeem, compound for.
-adjectives
substituted; ersatz; phony; vicarious, subdititious.
-adverbs
instead; in place of, in lieu of, in the stead of, in the room of; faute de mieux.
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