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and change

and change phrase: and some quantity, but less than the increment to the next round number.

Phrase

and change

  1. (idiomatic, informal) And some quantity, but less than the increment to the next round number.
    • Kate saw a wedge of land rearing up nineteen thousand feet and change, its pointed peak testing the boundaries of the sky.1993, Dana Stabenow, A Fatal Thaw, →ISBN, page 179
    • She wasn't much taller than five feet and change, and when she pulled off her mask she looked reassuringly human.2010, Robert Charles Wilson, Spin - Volume 1, →ISBN
  2. Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see and, change.
    Synonyms:
    -odd, -some

and change meaning in Bengali

and change in Bengali

কিছু পরিমাণ

Examples of and change in a sentence

  • It cost me two dollars and change. (i.e., more than $2 but less than $3)
  • How fast was he going? A hundred and change. (i.e., more than 100 but less than 110).
  • “Six hundred and change shares of Grauptham House,” she said.2012, Paul Melko, The Broken Universe, →ISBN, page 181:
  • Seven years and a few months after leaving Earth, we where about to survey the last of six planets around an amazingly stable star some eight hundred and change light years from Earth.2013, Tony Pypka, Raptor, →ISBN, page 180:

Synonyms of and change

Questions about and change

What does and change mean?
And change means and some quantity, but less than the increment to the next round number.
What is and change in Bengali?
And change in Bengali is কিছু পরিমাণ. See And change meaning in Bengali.
How do you use and change in a sentence?
It cost me two dollars and change. (i.e., more than $2 but less than $3)
What part of speech is and change?
And change is a phrase.

Words near and change in the dictionary

  1. and all that
  2. and all the rest of it
  3. and all this
  4. and another thing
  5. and be done with it
  6. and change
  7. and company
  8. and counting
  9. and crap
  10. and don't play one on TV
  11. and don't you forget it

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Adapted from Wiktionary: and change (page history and authors); and change (Bengali Wiktionary) (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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