Associations to the word «Shortchange»

Wiktionary

SHORTCHANGE, verb. To defraud someone by giving them less change than they should be given after a transaction.
SHORTCHANGE, verb. (by extension) To deprive someone of something for which they paid.
SHORTCHANGE, verb. To make disadvantaged by design.

Wise words

In words, as fashions, the same rule will hold; Alike fantastic, if too new, or old: Be not the first by whom the new are tried, Nor yet the last to lay the old aside.
Alexander Pope