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What does shortchange mean?

Looking for the meaning or definition of the word shortchange? Here's what it means.

Verb
  1. To defraud someone by giving them less change than they should be given after a transaction.
  2. (by extension) To deprive someone of something for which they paid.
  3. To make disadvantaged by design.
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It's cheaper to buy a flat in Manhattan than in Malabar Hill, and you can be sure that shoddy materials will shortchange you in Mumbai.
And it continues to shortchange public expenditure, which bore the brunt of the war on the deficit.
If we shortchange the brain, we also shortchange our intellectual and emotional potential.
My temptation was to shortchange the fertile waiting process because it seemed barren.
Regrettably, in this budget, it did not shortchange the Minister of Natural Resources.
Like all other government entities in the U.S., Puerto Rico has many people to shortchange before it will stiff its bondholders.

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