make change

phrase

US

: to give someone the change required if he or she pays with or offers a larger amount of money

Can you make change for a twenty?

Examples of make change in a Sentence

Recent Examples on the Web

But no amount of nonprofit organizing can make change without looking at issues systemically. — Tania Azhang, Sacbee.com, 22 Sep. 2026

Ordinary people can make change Growing up, Steinem was a caregiver for her mother, who battled mental illness and addiction. — Clare Mulroy, USA Today, 22 Sep. 2026

The real value comes from knowing where to apply these tools, how to redesign the business around them and how to make change stick. — Andrea Guerzoni, Forbes.com, 10 Sep. 2026

And this is a film about how even a farmer with absolutely no means can make change. — Antonia Blyth, Deadline, 4 Sep. 2026

Rhymes for make change

• interchange
• rearrange
• arrange
• derange
• estrange
• exchange
• midrange
• grange
• mange
• range
• strange