small change

1. 1.

   a trifling sum of money

   Synonymschickenfeedchump change

   Broadercash

Questions about small change

What does small change mean?

small change means "a trifling sum of money".

What is another word for small change?

Close synonyms include chickenfeed, chump change. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is small change a common word?

small change is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.