short-change
Example Sentences
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When time was up, some accused the organizers of a conspiracy to short-change the cake-eaters’ time.
From The Wall Street Journal • Dec. 29, 2025
“The only alternative is to short-change devastated residents.”
From Los Angeles Times • Jan. 15, 2025
"Paying the legal minimum wage is non-negotiable and all businesses, whatever their size, should know better than to short-change hard-working staff," said Kevin Hollinrake, minister for enterprise, markets and small business.
From BBC • Jun. 20, 2023
Pandemic preparedness would be a disastrously short-sighted priority to short-change, for at least three reasons.
From Washington Post • Aug. 2, 2021
A short-change artist, from whom we can never recover.
From The Roycroft Dictionary Concocted by Ali Baba and the Bunch on Rainy Days. by Hubbard, Elbert