shortchange
See also: short-change and short change
English
Alternative forms
Pronunciation
- (General American) IPA(key): /ʃɔɹtˈt͡ʃeɪnd͡ʒ/
- (Received Pronunciation) IPA(key): /ʃɔːtˈtʃeɪnd͡ʒ/
- Rhymes: -eɪnd͡ʒ
Verb
shortchange (third-person singular simple present shortchanges, present participle shortchanging, simple past and past participle shortchanged)
- To defraud someone by giving them less change than they should be given after a transaction.
- I got shortchanged! …I gave him $10 for a $5 item and he only gave me $1 back.
- (by extension) To deprive someone of something for which they paid.
- The elective class was easy, but in the end I was shortchanging myself.
- To make disadvantaged by design.
- Being proud of mistreating shortchanged "enemies" is a likely sign of class consciousness, as well as thinking or speaking ill of them.
Translations
to defraud someone by giving them less change than they ought to be given after a transaction
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