chump change

Example Sentences

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Of course, $75 million is chump change for Amazon, which makes hundreds of billion dollars in revenue a year from both its online sales and Amazon Web Services cloud unit.

From Barron's • Jan. 29, 2026

This isn’t chump change, Jeffrey Brown of Redmond indicated.

From Seattle Times • May 12, 2023

Last year, the average 502 Direct Loan was for $222,300 but cost the government only $10,370 per loan, chump change for such a durable intervention.

From New York Times • Mar. 9, 2023

No, they shouldn’t spend the next 14 days trying to trade him for three prospects and some chump change.

From Los Angeles Times • Dec. 23, 2022

I wish one fifty was chump change for me.

From "On the Come Up" by Angie Thomas