short-change

Questions about short-change

What does short-change mean?

short-change means "cheat someone by not returning him enough money". That is the primary sense; the word has 2 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in short-change?

short-change has 2 syllables and divides as short--change under the regular spelling rules. It is not in the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary, so that comes from how the word is written rather than from a recorded pronunciation, and no stress or phonetic transcription is claimed for it.

What is another word for short-change?

Close synonyms include short, victimize, swindle, rook, goldbrick. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is short-change a common word?

short-change is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.