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Shortchanging
To defraud someone by giving them less change than they should be given after a transaction.
📖 Definitions of "Shortchanging"
verb
- 1
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."
- 2
(by extension) To deprive someone of something for which they paid.
"The elective class was easy, but in the end I was shortchanging myself."
- 3
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."
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