0 past participle, past simple of shortchange
1 to give someone back less money than they are owed when the person is buying something from you:
Inevitably in such a digest some topics get shortchanged.
By limiting women's pioneer ' ' achievements ' ' to the social and cultural, she argues, ' ' historians have traditionally shortchanged their accomplishments.
Again, one can imagine quite justifiable reasons for such omissions, but again one has to feel shortchanged.
In the trade-off (in which it is the classic which is consistently shortchanged), the actor substitutes behaviourism for elegance, contemporary speech patterns for literary constructs, and verisimilitude for period style.
However, education was not shortchanged.
Is not it a remarkable bit of vandalism that, although there is a surplus of £17 million, our schools are shortchanged?
It is the very suspicion of being shortchanged on time which often results in prolonging debate.
We are dealing with people who, beyond a shadow of doubt, were shortchanged.
