shortchange

shortchange

See also: short-change and short change

English

Alternative forms

• short change
• short-change

Etymology

short +‎ change

Pronunciation

• (General American) IPA^(key): /ʃɔɹtˈtʃeɪndʒ/
• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /ʃɔːtˈtʃeɪndʒ/
• Rhymes: -eɪndʒ

Verb

shortchange (third-person singular simple present shortchanges, present participle shortchanging, simple past and past participle shortchanged)

1. To defraud someone by giving them less change than they should be given after a transaction.

   I gave him $10 for a $5 item and he only gave me $1 back. I got shortchanged!

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.

Translations

to defraud someone by giving them less change than they ought to be given after a transaction

Armenian: please add this translation if you can Bulgarian: please add this translation if you can Chinese: Mandarin: please add this translation if you can Dutch: te weinig wisselgeld geven Esperanto: please add this translation if you can Finnish: antaa väärin takaisin Georgian: please add this translation if you can

Japanese: please add this translation if you can Khmer: please add this translation if you can Romanian: please add this translation if you can Russian: обсчи́тывать (ru) impf (obsčítyvatʹ), обсчита́ть (ru) pf (obsčitátʹ) Spanish: sisar (es) Thai: please add this translation if you can Turkish: please add this translation if you can Vietnamese: please add this translation if you can

to deprive someone of something for which they payed

Dutch: iemand afzetten, bedriegen (nl) Finnish: huijata (fi), pettää (fi)

Russian: обма́нывать (ru) impf (obmányvatʹ), обману́ть (ru) pf (obmanútʹ)