short selling

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 sale

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Questions about short selling

What does short selling mean?

short selling 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 selling?

Close synonyms include short sale. 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 selling a common word?

short selling 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.