shorting
Americannoun
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short selling: the act of selling a stock that you do not own, with the intention of buying it back at a lower price when the value of the stock falls.
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the act of short-circuiting.
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damage caused by an instance of short-circuiting.
adjective
Example Sentences
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The researchers devised a market-beating strategy for exploiting this discovery, buying those stocks that their LLM suggested would rise as the market fully discounted the pure news, and shorting stocks the model projected would fall.
From MarketWatch ● Jul. 4, 2026
Buying cheap stocks and shorting expensive stocks is a strategy that hasn’t made money for 15 years.
From Barron's ● Apr. 30, 2026
The firm focuses on heavily indebted companies, offering loans to some while buying and shorting bonds of others—often supersizing its trades.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Apr. 4, 2026
Some hedge funds are shorting shares that at first blush don’t seem very related to the fighting, such as Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Mar. 14, 2026
The TV was old and the sound kept shorting out.
From "The Joy Luck Club" by Amy Tan
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