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SHORT-CHANGE
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I. (verb)
Verb forms
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:
Deprive of by deceit
Example:
She defrauded the customers who trusted her
Synonyms:
bunco; con; defraud; diddle; goldbrick; hornswoggle; mulct; nobble; rook; scam; short-change; swindle; victimize
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
Sense 2
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
