go short
(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.
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(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.
My parents were very poor, and we often went short of food.
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(UK, intransitive) To have an insufficient amount.
My parents were very poor, and we often went short of food.
“i just want to go short distances at a slightly quickened pace please PLEASE give me a very large special lane for dumb girl on an old slow bike ;.;”
— Bluesky· May 2026
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