and change meaning
- [American idiom]
[some number of dollars] plus between 1 and 99 cents more.
• The book cost $12.49. That's twelve dollars and change.
• Subway fare is now one dollar and change.
[American slang]
plus a few cents; plus a few hundredths. (Used in citing a price or other decimal figure to indicate an additional fraction of a full unit.)
This one only costs ten bucks and change.
The New York Stock Exchange was up seven points and change for the third broken record this week.
More: Next- it spots trends and changes in eating habits.
- rabinovitz had winked and changed the subject.
- we see all human institutions grow and change.
- go and change out of those damp clothes into something dry.
- this fellow is always chopping and changing; he 's very unreliable.