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Meaning:
Adjective:
- Any financial investment position that is structured to be profitable if the price of the underlying security declines in the future.
- brittle (of pastry); see also shortening, shortcrust
- followed by '''for''' Of a word or phrase, constituting an abbreviation (for another) or shortened form (of another).
- of a person Of comparatively little height.
- of a ball that bounced relatively far from the batsman
- of a fielder or fielding position relatively close to the batsman
- Having a small distance from one end or edge to another, either horizontally or vertically.
- Having little duration; opposite of long.
- missing, deficient
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Adverb:
- briefly
- abruptly
- cricket of a cricket ball, to bounce relatively far from the batsman so that it bounces higher than normal; opposite of full
- curtly
- finance With a negative ownership position.
- unawares
- without achieving a goal or requirement
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Noun:
- A short circuit.
- baseball shortstop
- finance A short sale
- finance A short seller
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Verb:
- intransitive Of an short circuit.
- business To sell something, especially securities, that one does not own at the moment for delivery at a later date in hopes of profiting from a decline in the price; to sell '''short'''.
- transitive To cause a short circuit in (something).
- transitive To provide with a smaller than agreed or labeled amount.
- transitive To shortchange.
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