short-ship

English

Verb

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

  1. (transitive) To ship a smaller quantity of (goods) than the customer ordered.
    • 2014, Sunder Gee, Fraud and Fraud Detection (page 236)
      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.
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