Business / Agriculture / Short: (1) The selling side of an open futures contract: (2) a trader whose net position in the futures market shows an excess of open sales over open purchases. See long.
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Short Adjective Synonyms: direct, straight, straightforward, short and sweet
Short Verb Synonyms: laconic, terse, succinct, pithy, sententious, epigrammatic
Short Noun Synonyms: small, little, slight, petite, diminutive, wee, tiny, elfin, minuscule, midget, dwarfish, squat, dumpy, runty, stubby, stunted, pint-sized, knee-high to a grasshopper, sawn-off
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Entertainment / Literature / Shortening: In linguistics, the word has two meanings: (1) creating a new word by omitting part of a longer expression, and (2) changing a long vowel to a short one. MORE
Entertainment / Literature / Short Story: A brief prose tale, as Edgar Allan Poe labeled it. This work of narrative fiction may contain description, dialogue and commentary, but usually plot functions as the engine driving the art. The best s MORE
Science / Chemistry / Short Term Memory: Short term memory is a mechanism for storing temporary information, such as where you parked your car or numbers in a simple arithmetic problems. MORE
Business / Taxes / Go Short: When you enter a futures contract that commits you to sell or deliver the underlying product, you go short or have a short position. You're also going short when you write an options contract, giving MORE
Business / Taxes / Sell Short: Selling short is a trading strategy that's designed to take advantage of an anticipated drop in a stock's market price. To sell short, you borrow shares through your broker, sell them, and use the mon MORE
Business / Finance / Selling Short Against The Box: Selling short stock that is actually owned by the seller but held in the box, meaning it is held in safekeeping. The seller borrows securities needed to cover as the stock in the box may be inaccessib MORE