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Definition of Short-change

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

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"

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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