| Main Entry: | spending money |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | money available for spending |
Synonyms: |
mad money, petty cash, pin money, pocket money, small change |
| Main Entry: | change |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | smaller currency in exchange for larger |
Synonyms: |
chicken feed, coins, copper, dimes, nickels, pennies, pin money, pocket money, quarters, silver, spending money |
Antonyms: |
bill, dollar |
| Main Entry: | chicken feed |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | small amount of money |
Synonyms: |
Mickey Mouse, chump change, coins, nickels and dimes, nickles and dimes, paltry sum, peanuts, peanuts, pin money, pittance, pocket money, small amount, small amount of money, small change, small potatoes, small potatoes, spending money |
| Main Entry: | chump change |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | small sum of money |
Synonyms: |
Mickey Mouse, chicken feed, nickels and dimes, paltry sum, peanuts, pittance, pocket money, small amount, small change, small potatoes, spending money |
| Main Entry: | mad money |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | petty cash |
Synonyms: |
cheddar, contingency money, pin money, pocket money, small change, spending money |
| Concept: | [Difference at different times] Change. |
| Category: | 1. SIMPLE CHANGE |
Synonyms: |
-nouns
change, alteration, mutation, permutation, variation, modification, modulation, inflexion, mood, qualification, innovation, metastasis, deviation, turn, evolution, revolution; diversion; break., transformation, transfiguration; metamorphosis; transmutation; deoxidization; transubstantiation; mutagenesis, transanimation, transmigration, metempsychosis; avatar; alterative., conversion (gradual change); revolution (sudden or radical change); inversion (reversal); displacement; transference., changeableness; tergiversation (change of mind).
-verbs
change, alter, vary, wax and wane; modulate, diversify, qualify, tamper with; turn, shift, veer, tack, chop, shuffle, swerve, warp, deviate, turn aside, evert, intervert; pass to, take a turn, turn the corner, resume., work a change, modify, vamp, superinduce; transform, transfigure, transmute, transmogrify, transume; metamorphose, ring the changes., innovate, introduce new blood, shuffle the cards; give a turn to, give a color to; influence, turn the scale; shift the scene, turn over a new leaf., recast; reverse; disturb; convert into.
-adjectives
changed; newfangled; changeable; transitional; modifiable; alterative.
-adverbs
mutatis mutandis ["The necessary changes having been made" (Latin)].
-phrases
"a change came o'er the spirit of my dream" [Byron]; nous avons changé tout cela [Molière. "We have changed all that" (French)]; tempora mutantur nos et mutamur in illis ["The times are changed even as we are changed in them" (Latin)]; non sum qualis eram [Horace. "I am not as I used to be" (Latin)]; casaque tourner; corpora lente augescent cito extinguuntur [Tacitus. "Bodies grow slowly but are snuffed out quickly" (Latin)]; in statu quo ante bellum ["In the state in which it was before the war" (Latin)]; "still ending and beginning still" [Cowper]; vox audita perit littera scripta manet ["The voice heard vanishes, the letter written
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Antonyms: |
permanence |
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