0 to give someone back less money than they are owed when they are buying something from you:
The check-out girl short-changed her.
1 to treat someone unfairly by giving them less than they deserve:
Genuinely successful interdisciplinary scholarship manages not to short-change any of the disciplines whose insights it seeks to harvest.
For a decade we have lived with the short-change, quick-fix approach to post-16 training.
They want to distort competition and to short-change the taxpayer.
It will short-change many leaseholders, and a change of title will not cover up that.
He will appreciate that, having recognised that in principle he has a duty to help those infected, he must not now short-change them.
There is no reason to suppose that trusts would wish to require postgraduate deans to short-change junior doctors on their training.
Otherwise, there will be a temptation for the service provider to short-change the recipient.
That is quite legitimate; no one is trying to fiddle, or to short-change anyone.
