Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- transitive verb To give (someone) less change than is due in a transaction.
- transitive verb To treat unfairly or deceitfully; cheat.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- verb To
defraud someone by giving them lesschange than they ought to be given after a transaction. - verb by extension To deprive someone of something for which they paid.
- verb To make disadvantaged by design.
Etymologies
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Examples
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"What I'm not prepared to do is shortchange our children's education," Obama said Saturday in his weekly radio and Internet address.
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According to the Brookings Institute, of the many loopholes that riddle U.S. tax code, just one, the "deferral of foreign source income" allows multinational corporations to shortchange Uncle Sam by nearly $34 billion annually.
Josh Silver: House Votes to Reverse Net Neutrality; Set to Zero Out NPR
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“We must not shortchange them, or ourselves, by denying them the resources they need.”
Live Blog: Clinton’s Confirmation Hearing - The Caucus Blog - NYTimes.com
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"What I'm not prepared to do is shortchange our children's education," Obama said Saturday in his weekly radio and Internet address.
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"What I'm not prepared to do is shortchange our children's education," Obama said Saturday in his weekly radio and Internet address.
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"The Big Payback" may be a book that favors desk-jockeys over disc jockeys, but Charnas doesn't shortchange the passion that both parties poured into hip-hop.
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There's no incentive to shortchange a nonprofit -- you can't steal a halo.
Joe Waters: Cause Marketing, Selfishness Drive Consumer Giving
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There's no incentive to shortchange a nonprofit -- you can't steal a halo.
Joe Waters: Cause Marketing, Selfishness Drive Consumer Giving
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"The Big Payback" may be a book that favors desk-jockeys over disc jockeys, but Charnas doesn't shortchange the passion that both parties poured into hip-hop.
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"What I'm not prepared to do is shortchange our children's education," Obama said Saturday in his weekly radio and Internet address.
donatas commented on the word shortchange
1. to give less than the correct change to.
2. to deal with unfairly or dishonestly, esp. to cheat.
December 11, 2006