short account

American  

noun

Finance.

1. the account of a short seller.

2. short interest.

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short account British  

noun

1. the aggregate of short sales on an open market, esp a stock market

2. the account of a stock-market speculator who sells short

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Etymology

Origin of short account

First recorded in 1900–05

Example Sentences

Petrie and his colleagues have been asked to contribute to the institution’s historical record by writing accounts of their experiences as Temple students — short accounts, thank you, no more than 10 pages.

From New York Times

The Time Traveller went back to his home era and wrote up a short account of his visit to ad 2203.

From Nature

Mark Ley-Morgan, counsel for Bedfordshire Police Professional Standards, accused PC Ross of deliberately writing a short account of what happened that night.

From BBC

Moscow's short account gave no evidence for its suggestion that a group was sending chemical weaponry to Iraq.

From BBC

Nor was she mentioned in “Sunshine Muse: Contemporary Art on the West Coast,” my short account of the same historical period, published almost 40 years earlier.

From The Wall Street Journal