short sale

1. 1.

   sale of securities or commodity futures not owned by the seller (who hopes to buy them back later at a lower price)

   Synonymsshort selling

   Broadertrading

Questions about short sale

What does short sale mean?

short sale means "sale of securities or commodity futures not owned by the seller (who hopes to buy them back later at a lower price)".

What is another word for short sale?

Close synonyms include short selling. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is short sale a common word?

short sale 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.