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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 promises to increase fines and penalties for retailers who operate gas pumps that significantly shortchange consumers.
Like all other government entities in the U.S., Puerto Rico has many people to shortchange before it will stiff its bondholders.
Regrettably, in this budget, it did not shortchange the Minister of Natural Resources.
Did John McCain and Lindsey Graham shortchange America in their declaration of victory?
My temptation was to shortchange the fertile waiting process because it seemed barren.
We shortchange our influence and our ability to shape events when that's the only tool we think we have in the toolbox.

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