short-change

基本解释

Most people in today’s fast-paced world think that they can short-change the energy recovery process.
在当今快节奏的社会上大多数人认为他们可以短期改变精力回收过程。
This could short-change parts of Congo, where (because of chronic civil war, which proved quite healthy for some living things) not much deforestation has taken place recently.
这可能会亏待刚果的某些地区，那些地区最近几年的森林砍伐已经减少（因为长年的内战，这证明是对生物是非常有利的）。
Mothers and single women, in particular, short-change their contributions around the house, it said.
妈妈们和单身女性尤其低估自己对家庭的贡献。

Some centrist Democrats, such as Senator Claire McCaskill of Missouri, also criticized the way the president rolled out the new defense plan, and some questioned the intelligence behind the change in strategy to focus moreon short and mid-range missiles from Iran.

To narrow the deficit, it will be tempted to short-change infrastructure spending, an investment that pays off slowly.
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Because though some will never forgive a cheater in competitive sport, many of those same people will not short-change those fighting cancer simply to spite their once hero turned fraud.
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He suspects that the deal will short-change taxpayers.
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If someone short-changes you, they do not give you enough change after you have bought something from them.
If you are short-changed, you are treated unfairly or dishonestly, often because you are given less of something than you deserve.