short account

1. 1.

   a brokerage account of someone who sells short (sells securities he does not own)

   Broaderaccount
2. 2.

   the aggregate of short sales on an open market

   Broaderindex

Questions about short account

What does short account mean?

short account means "a brokerage account of someone who sells short (sells securities he does not own)". That is the primary sense; the word has 2 in total, listed in full on this page.

Is short account a common word?

short account is banded "Uncommon" — turns up in careful writing rather than conversation. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.