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- verb Present participle of
short-change .
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Examples
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Hundreds of New York's social-service organizations are short-changing the people they are supposed to serve by focusing on money-making schemes, according to a report released Wednesday by Pace University.
Report Faults Nonprofits on Service Shelly Banjo 2010
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Almost immediately the proposal ran into opposition in Congress, including Republicans who say President Barack Obama is short-changing the military.
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Stop short-changing critical investments in your economy.
Robert Creamer: What Do the Earthquake, Infrastructure and Antiquated Accounting Have to Do With Jobs? Robert Creamer 2011
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"It will be up to the public to decide on how many of our promises have been kept and how many of our policies have been implemented when the time comes," Mr. Edano added, suggesting that while the DPJ may have to pay for short-changing the public at the next election, the party policy changes themselves didn't warrant the calling of a snap election.
DPJ Apologizes for Campaign Promises Toko Sekiguchi 2011
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I think we're short-changing people suffering from depression, and grief, not to mention the judgment of our clinicians by lumping these diagnoses together, and hope the American Psychiatric Association vetoes this change.
Michael Stanclift, N.D.: Should Grief Be Treated the Same as Depression? N.D. Michael Stanclift 2012
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Stop short-changing critical investments in your economy.
Robert Creamer: What Do the Earthquake, Infrastructure and Antiquated Accounting Have to Do With Jobs? Robert Creamer 2011
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The TSA's plan to re-test as many of the full body X-ray scanners as possible at the end of this month is a good one, as is posting the results of radiation tests on the TSA's Web site, but anything less than the scrupulous supervision the Japanese government, and Japanese scientists are giving to radiation from their reactor meltdowns is short-changing the public.
Jayne Lyn Stahl: TSA, Radiation, and "Record-Keeping" Errors Jayne Lyn Stahl 2011
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But since Bush blew it back in the day — in part because he was always short-changing the war in Afghanistan in order to horde resources for his planned invasion of Iraq — the effort to build-up a workable Afghan central government shifted from a secondary objective to a primary one.
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The TSA's plan to re-test as many of the full body X-ray scanners as possible at the end of this month is a good one, as is posting the results of radiation tests on the TSA's Web site, but anything less than the scrupulous supervision the Japanese government, and Japanese scientists are giving to radiation from their reactor meltdowns is short-changing the public.
Jayne Lyn Stahl: TSA, Radiation, and "Record-Keeping" Errors Jayne Lyn Stahl 2011
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I think we're short-changing people suffering from depression, and grief, not to mention the judgment of our clinicians by lumping these diagnoses together, and hope the American Psychiatric Association vetoes this change.
Michael Stanclift, N.D.: Should Grief Be Treated the Same as Depression? N.D. Michael Stanclift 2012
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