short-change

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cheat someone by not returning him enough money
If someone short-changes you, they do not give you enough change after you have bought something from them. The cashier made a mistake and short-changed him
If you are short-changed, you are treated unfairly or dishonestly, often because you are given less of something than you deserve. Women are in fact still being short-changed in the press
shortchange
To make disadvantaged by design
shortchange
To deprive someone of something for which they paid

The elective class was easy, but in the end I was shortchanging myself.

shortchange
To defraud someone by giving them less change than they ought to be given after a transaction
shortchange
{f} give less change than is due; cheat, give less than agreed upon, provide less than required