| 单词 | change-maker |
| 释义 | > as lemmaschange-maker change-maker n. (a) U.S. a person who exchanges a sum of money for the same sum in a different denomination, especially as a profession; (also) any of various machines that perform such an exchange, typically banknotes for coins (now rare); (b) a person who works actively to effect positive social change (now the usual sense). ΚΠ 1852 Knickerbocker Oct. 316 The change-maker stood by the side of a large pile of bank-notes and specie. 1914 F. E. Clark & S. A. Clark Charm of Scand. 95 You need not even count your change, unless you want to make sure that the change-maker has not cheated himself. 1968 Boston Globe 8 Dec. a45 He calls the first students in this new course, the change-makers. 1979 Sun (Baltimore) 31 Aug. a13 ‘You'd have trouble trying to spend [a dollar coin]..in a vending machine,’ said..the national sales manager of..a St. Louis firm that manufactures the coin mechanisms for vending machines and change makers. 1990 C. A. Kent Entrepreneurship Educ. 284 Although only a relatively small number of people become entrepreneurs, there is a significantly larger number who could be the creative change makers the nation needs. 2012 Independent (Nexis) 31 Mar. 44 We in Labour still have a mountain to climb if we are to prove we can be the change-makers. < as lemmas |
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