short-changed in English

verb
1
cheat (someone) by giving insufficient money as change.
I'm sure I was shortchanged at the bar

Use "short-changed" in a sentence

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1. John made a big stink about being accidentally short changed.

2. Packard adds that because of the shortage of adequate child-care provisions in the United States, “quite a few million children today are being short-changed on good care in their early years.” —Our Endangered Children.