SHORT-CHANGE

Pronunciation (US): (GB):

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

Meaning:

Deprive of by deceit

Example:

She defrauded the customers who trusted her

Synonyms:

Classified under:

Verbs of political and social activities and events

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

Meaning:

Cheat someone by not returning him enough money

Synonyms:

short; short-change

Classified under:

Verbs of political and social activities and events

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