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Idiom

and change

Meaning

And some quantity, but less than the increment to the next round number.

Meaning adapted from Wiktionary, available under CC BY-SA 4.0.

Examples

“The ticket costs twenty dollars and change.”

“I waited for forty minutes and change before the bus finally arrived at the station.”

“The project required an investment of five thousand dollars and change, a figure that exceeded our initial budget by a small but significant margin.”

Examples

simple

“The ticket costs twenty dollars and change.”

contextual

“I waited for forty minutes and change before the bus finally arrived at the station.”

complex

“The project required an investment of five thousand dollars and change, a figure that exceeded our initial budget by a small but significant margin.”

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