Usually means: Sell borrowed stock, buy later.
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General (10 matching dictionaries)
  1. sell short: Merriam-Webster
  2. sell short: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. sell short: Collins English Dictionary
  4. sell short: Vocabulary.com
  5. sell short: Wiktionary
  6. sell short: Dictionary.com
  7. sell short: Rhymezone
  8. sell short: FreeDictionary.org
  9. sell short: Mnemonic Dictionary
  10. sell short: TheFreeDictionary.com

Business (6 matching dictionaries)
  1. sell short: Merriam-Webster Legal Dictionary
  2. INVESTORWORDS (No longer online)
  3. Sell short: Deardorff's Glossary of International Economics
  4. sell short: Legal dictionary
  5. Sell Short: Financial dictionary
  6. Yahoo Tax Center Glossary (No longer online)

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  1. sell short: Idioms

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  1. sell short: Urban Dictionary

Definitions from Wiktionary (sell short)

verb:  (transitive, finance) To engage in the process of short selling (selling a stock one does not own on the premise of the stock's price going down).
verb:  (transitive, sometimes reflexive) To underestimate the value of something; to understate its value.

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