Word Pronunciation & Dictionary

chop and change

Word Rarity Rare

Frequency: Zipf frequency 3.76 in modern English

Syllables: chop and change
IPA

27

Scrabble Score

13

Letters

1

Syllables

9

Unique Chars

Meaning

verb

To change or exchange repeatedly.

verb

To rearrange, reconfigure, or customise.

Example Sentences

"[...] and a good many people at B.T.C. headquarters and at Euston are still smarting from the Select Committee strictures on the L.M.R. Western Lines electrification estimates, whilst the nation at large is suffering from the effects of chopping and changing the electrification schemes."
"She pauses. “We were all very young. It was all chop and change. Quite a lot of things were experimental, I suppose. How to live a life! I don’t know whether I’ve got it now, but never mind – I had it!”"
"For quotations using this term, see Citations:chop and change."

Inflected Forms

chops and changes (present, singular) chopping and changing (participle, present) chopped and changed (participle, past) chopped and changed (past)

Phrases

choppy-changey

Questions

What does chop and change mean?: To change or exchange repeatedly.

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