From Longman Dictionary of Contemporary Englishchange something ↔ around phrasal verbMOVE something OR somebodyto move things into different positions When we’d changed the furniture around, the room looked bigger. → change→ See Verb table
Examples from the Corpus
change around• But quality teas, the best grade, have hardly changed at around 200p a kilogramme.• She's starting to do the decorating herself, changing it all around.• You will probably need to change the layout around as the artwork evolves.• I want you to change it around, Earl.• Otherwise you never change. Around midnight, the phone rang.• It was such an unlikely double that Olympic officials had to be convinced to change the schedules around to accommodate the quest.• Change swirls around us as we move into the coming century, the next millennium.• It is tempting to underestimate the scale and radical nature of changes occurring around us, socially or geographically. 