sea changenoun [ C ]
uk/ˈsiː ˌtʃeɪndʒ/us/ˈsiː ˌtʃeɪndʒ/literarya complete change:
There will have to be a sea change in people's attitudes if public transport is ever to replace the private car.
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Change and changes
- a change is as good as a rest idiom
- adjustment
- alteration
- blip
- changeover
- drift
- ebb
- fluctuate
- gradation
- metamorphosis
- modulate
- paradigm shift
- perversion
- punctuated equilibrium
- shake-up
- speciation
- step change
- tide
- transfigure
- twist
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