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short account

noun Finance.
  1. the account of a short seller.
  2. short interest.

Origin of short account

First recorded in 1900–05
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British Dictionary definitions for short account

short account

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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