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shortchange

/shawrt-cheynj/US // ˈʃɔrtˈtʃeɪndʒ //

短暂改变,短暂的改变,亏空,短缺

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Definitions

v.有主动词 verb
  1. 1

    short·changed, short·chang·ing.

    • : to give less than the correct change to.
    • : to deal with unfairly or dishonestly, especially to cheat.

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Examples

  • Unless Congress acts, those who can afford to pay the most will continue to pay nothing, or relatively little, shortchanging urgent priorities.

  • School finance experts have argued the math shortchanges districts that serve a higher percentage of low-income and at-risk students, who are more expensive to teach.

  • Beneficiaries also said they didn’t know Congress was shortchanging the trust all these years.

  • Duque says it spends nearly $1 billion a year on the migrants and has been shortchanged by donor nations.

  • Critics say the highway expansion proposal would cause too much environmental damage, shortchange mass transit and encourage auto-dependent sprawl development.

  • Like all other government entities in the U.S., Puerto Rico has many people to shortchange before it will stiff its bondholders.

  • Did they really think he would diss Obama, or shortchange him—or do anything but support him wholeheartedly?