short-change
verb [often passive]Verb Forms
| present simple I / you / we / they short-change | |
| he / she / it short-changes | |
| past simple short-changed | |
| past participle short-changed | |
| -ing form short-changing |
- short-change somebody
to give back less than the correct amount of money to somebody who has paid for something with more than the exact price 少找给（某人）零钱 - short-change somebody
to treat somebody unfairly by not giving them what they have earned or deserve 亏待；克扣 America is short-changing half its young adults by treating those who don’t attend college as failures. 美国正在通过将那些没有上大学的人视为失败者来欺骗一半的年轻人。