shortchange

Example Sentences

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You don’t want to shortchange your future simply because you feel an urgent desire to retire now.

From MarketWatch • Jan. 5, 2026

But some economists and academics say that would shortchange taxpayers.

From The Wall Street Journal • Dec. 4, 2025

He said he didn’t intend to shortchange workers and was working on rectifying the issue.

From Los Angeles Times • Sep. 30, 2024

Preschool-age children are the most difficult age group to count and are regularly missed during the nation’s head count, an oversight that can shortchange communities of federal funding for programs like Head Start.

From Seattle Times • Apr. 11, 2024

To make sure that workers at state farms do not shortchange the military, the army stations soldiers at all three thousand of them throughout the harvest season.

From "Escape from Camp 14: One Man's Remarkable Odyssey from North Korea to Freedom in the West" by Blaine Harden