shortchange

Example Sentences

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"You have insurance charges, floor charges, and various other levies that make production unsustainable," he told AFP, repeating allegations that contractors collude to keep prices low and "shortchange" producers.

From Barron's • May 15, 2026

To be clear, we don’t want to shortchange our daughter just because the focus seems to be on the boys.

From MarketWatch • Mar. 6, 2026

But some economists and academics say that would shortchange taxpayers.

From The Wall Street Journal • Dec. 4, 2025

But that would shortchange “Severance,” which takes another run at a corporate world run amok, detailing it in ways that are far more unsettling than anything in the latest season of “Squid Game.”

From Los Angeles Times • May 27, 2025

To make sure that workers at state farms do not shortchange the military, the army stations soldiers at all three thousand of them throughout the harvest season.

From "Escape from Camp 14: One Man's Remarkable Odyssey from North Korea to Freedom in the West" by Blaine Harden