To sell short

To sell short
Short Short, adv. In a short manner; briefly; limitedly; abruptly; quickly; as, to stop short in one's course; to turn short. [1913 Webster]

He was taken up very short, and adjudged corrigible for such presumptuous language. --Howell. [1913 Webster]

{To sell short} (Stock Exchange), to sell, for future delivery, what the party selling does not own, but hopes to buy at a lower rate. [1913 Webster]


The Collaborative International Dictionary of English. 2000.

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