Sentence examples for was shortchanged from inspiring English sources
verb
To defraud someone by giving them less change than they should be given after a transaction.
- I gave him $10 for a $5 item and he only gave me $1 back. I got shortchanged!
It is satisfyingly good -- and it was shortchanged.
(He then found he was shortchanged; he had been given $260).
The training effort — like everything else about Afghanistan — was shortchanged for years under President George W. Bush.
O'Neill's 13,805 first-class runs at 51.51, including 45 centuries, suggest he was shortchanged by his 42 Tests.
MILITARY AND POLICE TRAINING Like everything else about this war, the effort to train the Afghan Army and police was shortchanged for years under the Bush administration.
SHOUTS & MURMURS account of business transactions in which the narrator was shortchanged and his quest for closure of various sorts, in relationships and matters of lesser consequence.
Every day, she felt she was shortchanging her older patients.
Some faulted the company, saying it was shortchanging translators.
When he wasn't afraid, he worried that he was shortchanging patients.
Mr. Schwab rebutted the charge, saying he did not think his company was shortchanging its customers.
But Camby knew his coach was shortchanging the Knicks' main offensive weapon, Allan Houston.
