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short-change
verb
To defraud someone by giving them less change than they should be given after a transaction.
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verb
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.”
(by extension) To deprive someone of something for which they paid.
“The elective class was easy, but in the end I was shortchanging myself.”
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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I got shortchanged! …I gave him $10 for a $5 item and he only gave me $1 back.
The elective class was easy, but in the end I was shortchanging myself.
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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