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Meaning of chop and change | Babel Free

Verb CEFR C1

Definitions

  1. To change or exchange repeatedly.
  2. To rearrange, reconfigure, or customise.

Examples

“[...] 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⟳.”

CEFR level

C1
Advanced
This word is part of the CEFR C1 vocabulary — advanced level.
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See also

chop down chop it up chop logic chop off chop onions chop out

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