SHORT-CHANGE
Dictionary entry overview: What does short-change mean?
• SHORT-CHANGE (verb)
The verb SHORT-CHANGE has 2 senses:
1. cheat someone by not returning him enough money
2. deprive of by deceit
Familiarity information: SHORT-CHANGE used as a verb is rare.
Dictionary entry details
• SHORT-CHANGE (verb)
Meaning:
Cheat someone by not returning him enough money
Classified under:
Verbs of political and social activities and events
Synonyms:
short; short-change
Hypernyms (to "short-change" is one way to...):
bunco; con; defraud; diddle; gip; goldbrick; gyp; hornswoggle; mulct; nobble; rook; scam; short-change; swindle; victimize (deprive of by deceit)
Sentence frame:
Somebody ----s somebody
Meaning:
Deprive of by deceit
Classified under:
Verbs of political and social activities and events
Synonyms:
bunco; swindle; scam; rook; nobble; mulct; hornswoggle; gyp; goldbrick; gip; diddle; defraud; con; short-change; victimize
Context examples:
He swindled me out of my inheritance / She defrauded the customers who trusted her / the cashier gypped me when he gave me too little change
Hypernyms (to "short-change" is one way to...):
cheat; chisel; rip off (deprive somebody of something by deceit)
Troponyms (each of the following is one way to "short-change"):
short; short-change (cheat someone by not returning him enough money)
Sentence frames:
Somebody ----s somebody
Somebody ----s somebody PP
