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shortchange - definition and meaning
Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
transitive verb transitive verb
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verb defraud someone by giving them less change than they ought to be given after a transaction.verb by extension To deprive someone of something for which they paid.verb
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"What I'm not prepared to do is shortchange our children's education," Obama said Saturday in his weekly radio and Internet address.
Obama Hits GOP Proposal To Cut Education Spending (VIDEO) Hunter Stuart 2010
According to the Brookings Institute, of the many loopholes that riddle U.S. tax code, just one, the "deferral of foreign source income" allows multinational corporations to shortchange Uncle Sam by nearly $34 billion annually.
Josh Silver: House Votes to Reverse Net Neutrality; Set to Zero Out NPR Josh Silver 2011
“We must not shortchange them, or ourselves, by denying them the resources they need.”
Live Blog: Clinton’s Confirmation Hearing - The Caucus Blog - NYTimes.com 2009
"What I'm not prepared to do is shortchange our children's education," Obama said Saturday in his weekly radio and Internet address.
Obama Hits GOP Proposal To Cut Education Spending (VIDEO) Hunter Stuart 2010
"What I'm not prepared to do is shortchange our children's education," Obama said Saturday in his weekly radio and Internet address.
Obama Hits GOP Proposal To Cut Education Spending (VIDEO) The Huffington Post News Team 2010
"The Big Payback" may be a book that favors desk-jockeys over disc jockeys, but Charnas doesn't shortchange the passion that both parties poured into hip-hop.
The brains behind the bling-bling Post 2011
There's no incentive to shortchange a nonprofit -- you can't steal a halo.
Joe Waters: Cause Marketing, Selfishness Drive Consumer Giving Joe Waters 2011
There's no incentive to shortchange a nonprofit -- you can't steal a halo.
Joe Waters: Cause Marketing, Selfishness Drive Consumer Giving Joe Waters 2011
"The Big Payback" may be a book that favors desk-jockeys over disc jockeys, but Charnas doesn't shortchange the passion that both parties poured into hip-hop.
The brains behind the bling-bling Post 2011
"What I'm not prepared to do is shortchange our children's education," Obama said Saturday in his weekly radio and Internet address.
Obama Hits GOP Proposal To Cut Education Spending (VIDEO) The Huffington Post News Team 2010
donatas commented on the word shortchange
1. to give less than the correct change to.
2. to deal with unfairly or dishonestly, esp. to cheat.
December 11, 2006