chump change

noun

: a relatively small or insignificant amount of money

Examples of chump change in a Sentence

what seems like a huge amount of money to most people is only chump change to a billionaire
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Trump’s second term could make that total look like chump change. Kevin Breuninger, CNBC, 8 Dec. 2024 Still, nearly $15 million per year for the next two years isn’t exactly chump change. Tony Blengino, Forbes, 4 Dec. 2024 Suddenly, even impressive earnings from mid-budget movies were starting to look like chump change compared to the hundreds of millions of dollars franchises could turn in with the promise of sequels. Kyndall Cunningham, Vox, 7 Dec. 2018 Working over nine days in Ireland with the chump change left over from another Corman production, Coppola was asked to do a no-budget Psycho and delivered a film that Corman had to reshoot to deem releasable. Scott Tobias, Vulture, 27 Sep. 2024 See all Example Sentences for chump change 

Word History

First Known Use

1956, in the meaning defined above

Time Traveler
The first known use of chump change was in 1956

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“Chump change.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/chump%20change. Accessed 24 Dec. 2024.

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