small change
small change noun: coins of little value kept in one's pocket or bag, ready for small purchases.
Noun
small change (uncountable)
- Coins of little value kept in one's pocket or bag, ready for small purchases.
- Holonyms: pocket money, spending money, walk-around money, walking-around money; pin money
- Synonyms:
- pocket change, loose change, spare change, pocket shrapnel, shrapnel, pennies, red cents, spill
- A minor or insignificant amount of money.
- The cost of toothpaste is small change compared to the cost of dental work.
- 'Cousin Tom,' said mother, and trying to get so that Annie and I could not hear her; 'it would be a sad and unkinlike thing for you to despise our dwelling-house. We cannot entertain you, as the lordly inns on the road do; and we have small change of victuals.1869, R[ichard] D[oddridge] Blackmore, chapter XI, in Lorna Doone: A Romance of Exmoor. […], volume (please specify |volume=I to III), London: Sampson Low, Son, & Marston, […], →OCLC
- Synonyms:
- pocket change, loose change, spare change, chump change, pittance, coffee money
- A person or thing of little importance or value.
- He's a self-satisfied klutz who aspires to be a con artist. . . . Compared with Lawrence, Freddy is small change.1988 December 14, Vincent Canby, “Movie Review: Dirty Rotten Scoundrels”, in New York Times, retrieved 25 May 2016
- Synonyms:
- small-timer, small fry, small potatoes, nobody
small change meaning in Hindi, Tamil, Urdu and Telugu
small change in Hindi
- a minor or insignificant amount of money
- छुट्टा chuṭṭā
small change in Tamil
- a minor or insignificant amount of money
- சில்லறை cillaṟai
small change in Urdu
- a small change
- چھٹا chuṭṭā
small change in Telugu
- small change, loose money, small coins or money of smaller denominations
- చిల్లర cillara
More languagesFewer languages
- small change in Malayalam
- ചില്ലറ cillaṟa
- small change in Kannada
- ಪುಡಿಕಾಸು, ಪುಡಿಗಾಸು, ಚಿಕ್ಕಾಸು, ಚಿಲವಾನ್
- small change in Tagalog
- sukli
- small change in Arabic
- فُرَاطَة furāṭa
- small change in Indonesian
- uang receh
Synonyms of small change
- pocket change
- loose change
- spare change
- pocket shrapnel
- shrapnel
- pennies
- red cents
- chump change
- pittance
- coffee money
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Questions about small change
- What does small change mean?
- Small change means coins of little value kept in one's pocket or bag, ready for small purchases.
- What is small change in Hindi?
- Small change in Hindi is छुट्टा (chuṭṭā). See Small change meaning in Hindi.
- What part of speech is small change?
- Small change is a noun.
Words near small change in the dictionary
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Adapted from Wiktionary: small change (page history and authors); چھٹا (Urdu) (page history and authors); చిల్లర (Telugu) (page history and authors); ചില്ലറ (Malayalam) (page history and authors); small change (Kannada 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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