Usually means: Sell assets expecting price decline.
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General (7 matching dictionaries)
  1. go short: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  2. go short: Collins English Dictionary
  3. go short: Dictionary.com
  4. go short: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  5. go short: Wiktionary

Business (3 matching dictionaries)
  1. go short: Finance-Glossary.com
  2. Go short: Financial dictionary
  3. Yahoo Tax Center Glossary (No longer online)

Definitions from Wiktionary (go short)

verb:  (UK, intransitive) To have an insufficient amount. [with of ‘something’]
verb:  (finance) To sell a financial product (such as a share) now, even though one does not presently own it, in the hope of buying it more cheaply for delivery at a later date, so as to profit from a fall in price below the price at which one sold it; cf. go long.

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