change
/ˈt͡ʃeɪnd͡ʒ/ noun A1- The process or result of becoming different. · The product is undergoing a change in order to improve it.· Such much-needed changes to the exam format might have a serious effect on candidates' performance.
- Small denominations of money given in exchange for a larger denomination. · Can I get change for this $100 bill, please?
- A replacement. · a change of clothes
- A replacement of a soiled diaper with a clean one; a diaper change. · The baby needs a change
- Balance of money returned from the sum paid after deducting the price of a purchase. · A customer who pays with a 10-pound note for a £9 item receives one pound in change.
- An amount of cash, usually in the form of coins, but sometimes inclusive of paper money. · Do you have any change on you? I need to make a phone call.· This bus ride requires exact change.
- A transfer between vehicles. · The train journey from Bristol to Nottingham includes a change at Birmingham.
- A change-up pitch.
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At this moment Danglars, who had been incessantly observing every change in Fernand’s look and manner, saw him stagger and fall back, with an almost convulsive spasm, against a seat placed near one of the open windows.
Tomorrow, perhaps, he may change you.
But cleansing his feathers as often as he would, he could not change their color, while through want of food he perished.
Change of habit cannot alter Nature.
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