Shortchange

English

Verb

Shortchange (third-person singular simple present Shortchanges, present participle Shortchangeing, simple past and past participle Shortchangeed)

1. To defraud someone by giving them less change than they should be given after a transaction.
2. Luxembourgish To deprive someone of something for which they paid.
3. To make disadvantaged by design.

Alternative forms

• short change
• short-change

Etymology

en +‎ short +‎ change

Pronunciation

• (GenAm) IPA: /ʃɔɹtˈtʃeɪndʒ/
• (RP) IPA: /ʃɔːtˈtʃeɪndʒ/
• Rhymes: -eɪndʒ

Translations

to defraud someone by giving them less change than they ought to be given after a transaction

Armenian: Template:T-needed Bulgarian: Template:T-needed Chinese: Mandarin: Template:T-needed Dutch: te weinig wisselgeld geven (nl) Esperanto: Template:T-needed Finnish: [[antaa väärin takaisin#Finnish|antaa väärin takaisin]] [[:fi:antaa väärin takaisin|(fi)]] Georgian: Template:T-needed

Japanese: Template:T-needed Khmer: Template:T-needed Romanian: Template:T-needed Russian: обсчи́тывать (ru), обсчита́ть (ru) Spanish: sisar (es) Thai: Template:T-needed Turkish: Template:T-needed Vietnamese: Template:T-needed

to deprive someone of something for which they payed

Dutch: iemand afzetten (nl), bedriegen (nl) Finnish: huijata (fi), pettää (fi)

Russian: обма́нывать (ru), обману́ть (ru)