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short: Not long; of brief length or duration; not coming up to a measure, standard, requirement, or the like. A term of common use in the stock and commodity markets. To say that one is "short," in the vernacular of the exchanges, implies only that one has less of a commodity than may be necessary to meet demands and obligations. It does not imply that commodity cannot or will not be supplied upon demand. In finance and commodity futures, a person is short when he has sold securities or commodities which he does not own at the time of the sale, though he expects to buy them back at a lower price than that at which he sold them.

See also short sale

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Brief / Near, direct, straight / Compendious, succinct, concise, condensed, terse, pithy, sententious, laconic, curt, brief / Abrupt, sharp, pointed, petulant, curt, brief, severe, uncivil / Deficient, defective, inadequate, scanty, insufficient, imperfect / Narrow, limited, contracted / Lacking, wanting, destitute / Brittle, friable, crumbling / Crisp, Suddenly, abruptly, at once

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Short — Short, a. [Compar. {Shorter}; superl. {Shortest}.] [OE. short, schort, AS. scort, sceort; akin to OHG. scurz, Icel. skorta to be short of, to lack, and perhaps to E. shear, v. t. Cf. {Shirt}.] 1. Not long; having brief length or linear extension; … The Collaborative International Dictionary of English
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Short — Short, n. 1. A summary account. [1913 Webster] The short and the long is, our play is preferred. Shak. [1913 Webster] 2. pl. The part of milled grain sifted out which is next finer than the bran. [1913 Webster] The first remove above bran is… … The Collaborative International Dictionary of English
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… … The Collaborative International Dictionary of English
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Short — Short, v. t. [AS. sceortian.] To shorten. [Obs.] [1913 Webster] … The Collaborative International Dictionary of English
Short — Short, v. i. To fail; to decrease. [Obs.] [1913 Webster] … The Collaborative International Dictionary of English
Short C-23 — Shorts C 23 Sherpa, die militärische Variante der Shorts 330 Die Short 330 (auch Shorts 330) ist ein Kurzstrecken Passagier und Frachtflugzeug des ehemaligen britischen Flugzeugherstellers Short Brothers. Inhaltsverzeichnis … Deutsch Wikipedia

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