A Change
- (countable, uncountable) The process of becoming different.
- (uncountable) Small denominations of money given in exchange for a larger denomination.
- (countable) A replacement, e.g. a change of clothes
- (uncountable) Money given back when a customer hands over more than the exact price of an item.
- (uncountable) Usually coins (as opposed to paper money), but sometimes inclusive of paper money
- (countable) A transfer between vehicles.
- (baseball) A change-up pitch.
- (campanology) Any order in which a number of bells are struck, other than that of the diatonic scale.
- (dated) A place where merchants and others meet to transact business; an exchange.
- (Scotland, dated) A public house; an alehouse.
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- Adjectives often applied to "change": big, small, major, minor, dramatic, drastic, rapid, slow, gradual, radical, evolutionary, revolutionary, abrupt, sudden, unexpected, incremental, social, economic, organizational, technological, personal, cultural, political, technical, environmental, institutional, educational, genetic, physical, chemical, industrial, geological, global, local, good, bad, positive, negative, significant, important, structural, strategic, tactical.