short covering

1. 1.

   the purchase of securities or commodities by a short seller to close out a short sale

   Broadertrading

Questions about short covering

What does short covering mean?

short covering means "the purchase of securities or commodities by a short seller to close out a short sale".

Is short covering a common word?

short covering is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.