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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. 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. 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. 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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