Short change

verb

Definitions

1.verbTo 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.verb(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.verbTo 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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