SHORT-CHANGE

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does short-change mean? 

• SHORT-CHANGE (verb)
  The verb SHORT-CHANGE has 2 senses:

1. cheat someone by not returning him enough money

2. deprive of by deceit

  Familiarity information: SHORT-CHANGE used as a verb is rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• SHORT-CHANGE (verb)

Present simple: I / you / we / they short-change    ... he / she / it short-changes   
Past simple: short-changed   
Past participle: short-changed   
-ing form: short-changing   

Sense 1

Meaning:

Cheat someone by not returning him enough money

Classified under:

Verbs of political and social activities and events

Synonyms:

short; short-change

Hypernyms (to "short-change" is one way to...):

bunco; con; defraud; diddle; goldbrick; hornswoggle; mulct; nobble; rook; scam; short-change; swindle; victimize (deprive of by deceit)

Sentence frame:

Somebody ----s somebody

Sense 2

Meaning:

Deprive of by deceit

Classified under:

Verbs of political and social activities and events

Synonyms:

bunco; con; defraud; diddle; goldbrick; hornswoggle; mulct; nobble; rook; scam; short-change; swindle; victimize

Context example:

She defrauded the customers who trusted her

Hypernyms (to "short-change" is one way to...):

cheat; chisel; rip off (deprive somebody of something by deceit)

Troponyms (each of the following is one way to "short-change"):

short; short-change (cheat someone by not returning him enough money)

Sentence frames:

Somebody ----s somebody
Somebody ----s somebody PP