Definition of Short-change

1. Verb. Cheat someone by not returning him enough money.

Exact synonyms: Short
Generic synonyms: Bunco, Con, Defraud, Diddle, Gip, Goldbrick, Gyp, Hornswoggle, Mulct, Nobble, Rook, Scam, Swindle, Victimize

2. Verb. Deprive of by deceit. "They short-change him of all his money"; "The cashier gypped me when he gave me too little change"
Exact synonyms: Bunco, Con, Defraud, Diddle, Gip, Goldbrick, Gyp, Hornswoggle, Mulct, Nobble, Rook, Scam, Swindle, Victimize
Specialized synonyms: Short
Generic synonyms: Cheat, Chisel, Rip Off
Derivative terms: Bunco, Con, Defrauder, Gyp, Scam, Scammer, Swindle, Swindler, Victimization

Definition of Short-change

1. Verb. (alternative form of shortchange) ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Lexicographical Neighbors of Short-change

shoring up
shorings
shorl
shorlaceous
shorling
shorls
shorn
short(p)
short-acting
short-billed marsh wren
short-breathed
short-chain
short-chain acyl-CoA dehydrogenase
short-chain beta-hydroxyacyl-CoA dehydrase
short-change (current term)
short-changed
short-changes
short-changing
short-circuit
short-circuit operator
short-circuit operators
short-circuited
short-circuiting
short-circuits
short-corner
short-cut
short-cuts
short-dated
short-day plant

Literary usage of Short-change

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. A Dictionary of Slang, Jargon & Cant: Embracing English, American, and Anglo by Albert Barrère, Charles Godfrey Leland (1889)
"Fluff (railway ticket clerks), short change given by such. To fluff is to give short change. Fluff, to (popular), to take away ; also to disconcert, ..."

2. Book Auction Records by Frank Karslake (1902)
"Shall I Succeed, pocket-book lettering, with plate marks (P. Nov. 9; 426) Robinson, £i ios. — Short Change, stamped mount (P. Dec. ..."

3. Report of the Commission on Minimum Wage Boards: January, 1912 by Henry Lefavour (1912)
"Fines in most of the Boston stores are imposed for short change equal to the amount of the ... The making up of short change is a great hardship to her. ..."

4. The Best Short Stories of ... and the Yearbook of the American Short Story edited by [Anonymus AC02789944] (1921)
"... which constitutes a document of no little value to the imaginative student of our institutions, and " Short Change " has no little value as a vividly ..."

5. The London Medical Gazette (1845)
"... to the healthy state and fresh ; a very short change which the bile undergoes sub- time, however, is sufficient to change — "" *- :'~ : я—«i— ;-. ..."

6. Reports of All the Cases Decided by All the Superior Courts Relating to by Great Britain Magistrates' cases, Edward William Cox (1864)
"'s cashiers, said:—Hit. had applied to me many times on account of his alleging I had given him short change. ..."

7. The Practitioner's Handbook of Treatment, Or, The Principles of Therapeutics by J. Milner Fothergill (1887)
"In short, change of air and climate constitute the most powerful curative agents, and often preventive measures, we have to fall back upon in India, ..."

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