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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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And it continues to shortchange public expenditure, which bore the brunt of the war on the deficit.
My temptation was to shortchange the fertile waiting process because it seemed barren.
Like all other government entities in the U.S., Puerto Rico has many people to shortchange before it will stiff its bondholders.
However, so as not to shortchange our bilateral relations, there will also be a chat, and forums about many topics.
Did John McCain and Lindsey Graham shortchange America in their declaration of victory?
If we shortchange the brain, we also shortchange our intellectual and emotional potential.

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