shortchange
[shawrt-cheynj]
verb (used with object), short·changed, short·chang·ing.
to give less than the correct change to.
to deal with unfairly or dishonestly, especially to cheat.
Origin of shortchange
An Americanism dating back to 1890–95
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Related Words for shortchanged
fleece, sting, bamboozle, bilk, deceive, defraud, dupe, finagle, flimflam, gyp, hose, mislead, rook, scam, screw, shaft, stiff, swindle, take, trickExamples from the Web for shortchanged
Contemporary Examples of shortchanged
Resources needed to stabilize Afghanistan after a quarter century of war were deployed to Iraq, and Afghanistan was shortchanged.
