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

From Time

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.

From Time

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?

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On this page you'll find 26 synonyms, antonyms, and words related to shortchange, such as: bamboozle, bilk, deceive, defraud, diddle, and double-deal.

From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.

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