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- verb Simple past tense and past participle of
short-change .
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Examples
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Most people who earmark bursaries for female or Native students do so out of concern that women and Aboriginals are being short-changed by the Canadian educational system, not out of hostility to men or non-Natives.
Ret. Judge Paul Staniszewski Espouses Clear Hatred : Law is Cool 2009
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Sir Alex Ferguson, who has been known to use a stopwatch even when watching televised matches, reckons the latest Clásico short-changed the public by around half an hour because so little football was actually played.
Spain's game of greater style – and the rest is histrionics | Paul Wilson 2011
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Those overseeing the liquidation of MF Global's U.K. and Hong Kong brokerage arms are concerned the claims of foreign customers will be short-changed.
MF Global Collapse Felt in Farm Country Jerry A. DiColo 2011
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Under terms of the 2005 peace deal, the north and south have shared the country's oil proceeds equally, though the south claims it is being short-changed.
China Courts Secessionists in Sudan, Breaking a Mold Joe Lauria 2010
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Further, there is the sense that people 50 under are being short-changed.
Debating Social Security, Arnold Kling | EconLog | Library of Economics and Liberty 2009
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However, critics have said that those programs have been short-changed because funds have been shifted to other NASA programs.
U.S., Partners Split on Space-Exploration Plans Andy Pasztor 2011
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Because if they're not seeing the best players, audiences could feel short-changed and eventually start voting with their feet.
Injuries Hamper Cricket's World Stage Richard Lord 2011
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Utah is good enough to crack a couple of Bowl Championship Series lineups and still feel short-changed.
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RIBA suggests that potential buyers are being short-changed and fobbed off with "shameful shoe box homes".
RIBA condemns 'shameful shoe box homes' now built in Britain 2011
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And the "difficult learners" who have serious behavioral and learning problems, or who are recent immigrants, should also have been included in these moving portraits of the young who have been short-changed in many ways by this economic system.
Joel Shatzky: Educating for Democracy: Waiting for Superman or Waiting for Godot? Joel Shatzky 2010
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