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short selling

British

noun

finance the practice of selling commodities, securities, currencies, etc that one does not have in the expectation that falling prices will enable one to buy them in at a profit before they have to be delivered

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Nearly 80% of the shares that can be borrowed for short selling are already being borrowed, said Hillerberg—meaning there aren’t many shares left for new short sellers.

From Barron's • Jun. 25, 2026

He cheated Vanderbilt with a short selling operation in Erie shares that caused the market overall to fall.

From The Wall Street Journal • Jun. 12, 2026

Another factor in the recent rise is short selling.

From Barron's • May 27, 2026

Our call of the day, from the pioneer of activist short selling, Carson Block, says now is not the time to be shorting AI stocks.

From MarketWatch • Feb. 5, 2026

The practice of short selling has been sanctioned by economists from the first Napoleon's Minister of Finance to Horace White in our day.

From The New York Stock Exchange and Public Opinion Remarks at Annual Dinner, Association of Stock Exchange Brokers, Held at the Astor Hotel, New York, January 24, 1917 by Kahn, Otto Hermann

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