short-ship

verb

To ship a smaller quantity of (goods) than the customer ordered.

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Meanings

verbshort-ship (third-person singular simple present short-ships, present participle short-shipping, simple past and past participle short-shipped)

present singular third person short-ships · participle present short-shipping · participle past short-shipped · past short-shipped

  1. transitiveTo ship a smaller quantity of (goods) than the customer ordered.

    A variation of this is to short-ship goods to customers. A short shipment is when items are listed in the shipping document but not included in the shipment and not received by the recipient.

    2014, Sunder Gee, Fraud and Fraud Detection, page 236
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