'To sell short' definitions:
Definition of 'To sell short'
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- 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]