outswap

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English

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Etymology

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From out- +‎ swap.

Verb

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outswap (third-person singular simple present outswaps, present participle outswapping, simple past and past participle outswapped)

  1. (transitive, computing) Synonym of swap out
    • 1983, Mini-Micro Systems, volume 16, page 255:
      Because a real-time process might idle for a considerable time waiting for an external event, a conventional operating system would outswap or outpage the process.