short-change
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When time was up, some accused the organizers of a conspiracy to short-change the cake-eaters’ time.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Dec. 29, 2025
"Paying the legal minimum wage is non-negotiable and all businesses, whatever their size, should know better than to short-change hard-working staff," said Kevin Hollinrake, minister for enterprise, markets and small business.
From BBC ● Jun. 20, 2023
He denied that pressure to deliver promised investor returns caused the firm to short-change maintenance.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 14, 2022
Pandemic preparedness would be a disastrously short-sighted priority to short-change, for at least three reasons.
From Washington Post ● Aug. 2, 2021
A short-change artist, from whom we can never recover.
From The Roycroft Dictionary Concocted by Ali Baba and the Bunch on Rainy Days. by Elbert Hubbard
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