as in dime
a very small sum of money
what seems like a huge amount of money to most people is only chump change to a billionaire
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Recent Examples of chump change
In shipbuilding, that amount of capital investment is no more than chump change.
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Craig Hooper, Forbes.com, 21 Aug. 2025
Not to mention, in the grand scheme of this year’s 5.35 trillion-dollar federal budget, $300,000 is chump change, a rounding error.
—Elizabeth Kaye Cook
august 6, Literary Hub, 6 Aug. 2025
If the federal government were to assume the costs of IVF instead, the fiscal impact would be at least $80 billion over a ten-year budget window—hardly chump change in an era of inflation pressures and rising budget deficits.
—Tommy Tuberville, Newsweek, 6 Mar. 2025
All this is relative chump change for a man who earned more than $107 million during his 14-year NBA career.
—Daniel Libit, Sportico.com, 3 Sep. 2019
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Craig Hooper, Forbes.com, 21 Aug. 2025
Not to mention, in the grand scheme of this year’s 5.35 trillion-dollar federal budget, $300,000 is chump change, a rounding error.
—Elizabeth Kaye Cook
august 6, Literary Hub, 6 Aug. 2025
If the federal government were to assume the costs of IVF instead, the fiscal impact would be at least $80 billion over a ten-year budget window—hardly chump change in an era of inflation pressures and rising budget deficits.
—Tommy Tuberville, Newsweek, 6 Mar. 2025
All this is relative chump change for a man who earned more than $107 million during his 14-year NBA career.
—Daniel Libit, Sportico.com, 3 Sep. 2019
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for chump change
dime
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Along the way, revenue streams have been similarly turbo-charged despite the club never earning so much as a penny or dime directly from Welcome to Wrexham.—
Richard Sutcliffe,
New York Times,
11 May 2026
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During the Great Depression, the business stayed afloat while offering hot dogs for a nickel, chili for a dime and sometimes food for free.—
Anna Ortiz,
Chicago Tribune,
9 May 2026
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“Chump change.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/chump%20change. Accessed 16 May. 2026.
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