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TO SELL SHORT

Definition: TO SELL SHORT

TO SELL SHORT

1. (Stock Exchange), to sell, for future delivery, what the party selling does not own, but hopes to buy at a lower rate.

Source: Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)
 


Crosswords: TO SELL SHORT

English words defined with "TO SELL SHORT": To be. (references)

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Modern Translation: TO SELL SHORT

Language Translations for "TO SELL SHORT"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses.

Dutch

  

in blanco verkopen (to enter into bear transactions, to sell bear, to sell for a fall, to sell in bear, to sell uncovered, to speculate for a fall). (various references)

   

Finnish

  

ylimyynti (to sell bear, to sell in bear, to sell uncovered), lyhyeksi myynti (to sell bear, to sell in bear, to sell uncovered). (various references)

   

French

  

vendre à découvert (to sell bear, to sell in bear, to sell uncovered). (various references)

   

German

  

leer verkaufen (to sell bear, to sell in bear, to sell uncovered), blanko verkaufen (to sell bear, to sell in bear, to sell uncovered). (various references)

   

Italian

  

vendere allo scoperto (to sell bear, to sell in bear, to sell uncovered). (various references)

   

Pig Latin

  

otay ellsay ortshay

   

Portuguese

  

vender a descoberto (to sell bear, to sell in bear, to sell uncovered). (various references)

   

Swedish

  

försäljning av fondpapper som säljaren ännu inte äger (to sell bear, to sell in bear, to sell uncovered), blankning (selling short, short sale, short selling, to sell bear, to sell in bear, to sell uncovered, uncovered sale). (various references)

Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

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Anagrams: TO SELL SHORT

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Words within the letters "e-h-l-l-o-o-r-s-s-t-t"

-2 letters: throstles, toothless.

-3 letters: holsters, hostlers, orthoses, reshoots, rootless, rootlets, settlors, sheroots, shooters, shortest, soothers, soothest, throstle, toolless, tootlers.

-4 letters: hollers, holloes, holster, hooters, horstes, hostels, hostler, loosest, looters, lotoses, ostlers, reshoot, retools, rootlet, settlor, sheroot, shooter, shtetls, soother, soothes, sterols, strolls, tollers, toolers, tooters, tootler, tootles, tootses.

-5 letters: hellos, helots, holler, hollos, hooter, horses.

 Words containing the letters "e-h-l-l-o-o-r-s-s-t-t"
 

+2 letters: tortoiseshell.

 

+3 letters: tortoiseshells.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Alternative Orthography: TO SELL SHORT


Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)

54 4F      53 45 4C 4C      53 48 4F 52 54

Leonardo da Vinci (1452-1519; backwards) (references)

        

Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)

01010100 01001111 00100000 01010011 01000101 01001100 01001100 00100000 01010011 01001000 01001111 01010010 01010100

HTML Code (1990) (references)

&#84 &#79 &#32 &#83 &#69 &#76 &#76 &#32 &#83 &#72 &#79 &#82 &#84

ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)

0054 004F      0053 0045 004C 004C      0053 0048 004F 0052 0054

Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)

544925339464625342495254

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INDEX

1. Definition
2. Crosswords
3. Translations: Modern
4. Anagrams
5. Orthography
6. Bibliography


  

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