Shortchanges vs Shortchanged - What's the difference?
shortchanges | shortchanged |
(shortchange)
To defraud someone by giving them less change than they should be given after a transaction.
(by extension) To deprive someone of something for which they paid.
To make disadvantaged by design.
As verbs the difference between shortchanges and shortchanged
is that shortchanges is (shortchange) while shortchanged is (shortchange).shortchanges
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Verb
(head)shortchange
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Alternative forms
* short change * short-changeVerb
- I gave him $10 for a $5 item and he only gave me $1 back. I got shortchanged !
- The elective class was easy, but in the end I was shortchanging myself.
