English-Finnish translations for shortchange

• antaa väärin takaisin
• huijata
• pettää
  Älä anna ulkonäön pettää.
  Aviorikoksen tekijä pettää puolisoaan

Definition of shortchange

• To defraud someone by giving them less change than they should be given after a transaction
• To deprive someone of something for which they paid
• To make disadvantaged by design

Examples

• I got shortchanged! …I gave him $10 for a $5 item and he only gave me $1 back
• The elective class was easy, but in the end I was shortchanging myself
• Being proud of mistreating shortchanged "enemies" is a likely sign of class consciousness, as well as thinking or speaking ill of them

Related words

• shortcoming
• shortcut
• shortcake
• shortcrust pastry
• shortcut key
• take a shortcut
• keyboard shortcut
• A type of spiced shortcrust biscuit