Give a dollar back, instead of two

Usage examples of shortchange.

Austria Austria is a very wonderful country that we have fond memories of despite the fact that, when we went there, virtually every single person we dealt with tried to shortchange us.

It was a cry for the benefit of all the shortchanged everywhere, spoken out of a caldron of social outrage and cosmic inspiration and flat beer.

The other planet, shortchanged on the denser elements, was able to settle into an orbit with its partner that would seem, to those unfamiliar with the physics and densities involved, to bring it dangerously close to Vulcan.

Anytime we find out that the fight against terrorism is being shortchanged by politics and greed we should bare our teeth at Washington.

Henri Deauville, shopkeeper, convicted of shortchanging Jules Beringer, executed 7 December, 1792 .

Linda Norton, and Annette Campise are simply women of rare strength and dedication is to shortchange them individually and collectively.

Idiots like him had cut costs by shortchanging the colony on Bremer until the colonists had grown tired of watching each other and their children die of curable diseases and starvation, and had rebelled.

There's more I could teach you about shortchanging customers and running up extra meterage but, otherwise, that's about it.

And there's just no two ways about it: I'm impressed -- you may have been a little shortchanged in the thinking department but when it comes to running, jumping and climbing you got double portions.

But everybody -- even shortchanged grizzerly bears named Big Double -- knows red squirrels can't fly -- not even red squirrels named Tricker.

It seemed to her that love and James Talbot had shortchanged her aunt when it came to marriage and children.

Most were contractors like herself, or small-stake charters beginning to feel that they had been shortchanged on their deals.