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WordNet (r) 3.0 (2005)

v
1: cheat someone by not returning him enough money [syn: short-change, short]
2: deprive of by deceit; "He swindled me out of my inheritance"; "She defrauded the customers who trusted her"; "the cashier gypped me when he gave me too little change" [syn: victimize, swindle, rook, goldbrick, nobble, diddle, bunco, defraud, scam, mulct, gyp, gip, hornswoggle, short-change, con]

Collin's Cobuild Dictionary

(short-changes, short-changing, short-changed) 1. If someone short-changes you, they do not give you enough change after you have bought something from them. The cashier made a mistake and short-changed him. VERB: V n 2. If you are short-changed, you are treated unfairly or dishonestly, often because you are given less of something than you deserve. Women are in fact still being short-changed in the press. VERB: usu passive, be V-ed