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Definitions: Sell Short |
Sell ShortVerb1. Sell securities or commodities or foreign currency that is not actually owned by the seller, who hopes to cover (buy back) the sold items at a lower price and thus to earn a profit. 2. Underestimate the real value or ability of; "Don't sell your students short--they are just shy and don't show off their knowledge". Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
| Context | Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus). |
Mart | Verb: speculate, invest, trade, trade stocks, play the market; buy long, sell short, take a position, straddle; take a plunge, plunge in, take a flier. |
| Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus. | |
Crosswords: Sell Short |
| English words defined with "sell short": To be, To sell short. (references) |
| Specialty definitions using "sell short": Peanut price support program. (references) |
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Expression using "sell short": To sell short. Additional references. | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. |
| The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com. |
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Dutch | in blanco verkopen (to enter into bear transactions, to sell bear, to sell for a fall, to sell in bear, to sell short, to sell uncovered, to speculate for a fall). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Finnish | ylimyynti (to sell bear, to sell in bear, to sell short, to sell uncovered), lyhyeksi myynti (to sell bear, to sell in bear, to sell short, to sell uncovered). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
French | vendre à découvert (to sell bear, to sell in bear, to sell short, to sell uncovered). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
German | leer verkaufen (to sell bear, to sell in bear, to sell short, to sell uncovered), blanko verkaufen (to sell bear, to sell in bear, to sell short, to sell uncovered). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Hebrew | למכור בחסר. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Italian | vendere allo scoperto (to sell bear, to sell in bear, to sell short, to sell uncovered). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Pig Latin | ellsay ortshay vender a descoberto (to sell bear, to sell in bear, to sell short, to sell uncovered). (various references) vender al descubierto. (various references) försäljning av fondpapper som säljaren ännu inte äger (to sell bear, to sell in bear, to sell short, to sell uncovered), blankning (selling short, short sale, short selling, to sell bear, to sell in bear, to sell short, to sell uncovered, uncovered sale). (various references) грати на знижку, обдурювати (befool, bilk, cheat, chouse, cod, cog, counterfeit, deceive, doodle, dupe, flimflam, gull, hoax, hocus, hoodwink, humbug, jockey, juggle, prey, put upon, queer). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "e-h-l-l-o-r-s-s-t" | |
-1 letter: holsters, hostlers. | |
-2 letters: hollers, holster, horstes, hostels, hostler, ostlers, sterols, strolls, tollers. | |
-3 letters: hellos, helots, holler, horses, horste, horsts, hosels, hostel, hotels, lessor, losels, losers, ostler, others, reshot, rosets, shells, sheols, shoers, shores, shorls, shorts, shotes, sloths, sorels, sorest, sterol, stoles, stores, stroll, tholes, throes, toller, torses, toshes, tosser, trolls, tsores. | |
-4 letters: ethos, hello. | |
| Words containing the letters "e-h-l-l-o-r-s-s-t" | |
+1 letter: hostellers. | |
+2 letters: worthlessly. | |
+3 letters: cholesterols, prothalluses, stallholders. | |
+4 letters: strangleholds, tortoiseshell. | |
+5 letters: blepharoplasts, collectorships, flugelhornists, legislatorship, schoolmasterly, slaughterously, tortoiseshells, whistleblowers. | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. SCRABBLE® is a registered trademark. All intellectual property rights in and to the game are owned in the U.S.A and Canada by Hasbro Inc., and throughout the rest of the world by J.W. Spear & Sons Limited of Maidenhead, Berkshire, England, a subsidiary of Mattel Inc. Mattel and Spear are not affiliated with Hasbro. | |
Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)53 65 6C 6C 53 68 6F 72 74 |
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Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)01010011 01100101 01101100 01101100 00100000 01010011 01101000 01101111 01110010 01110100 |
HTML Code (1990) (references)S e l l   S h o r t |
ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)0053 0065 006C 006C 0053 0068 006F 0072 0074 |
Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)5371787825374818486 |
| 1. Definition 2. Crosswords 3. Usage: Commercial 4. Expressions | 5. Expressions: Internet 6. Translations: Modern 7. Anagrams 8. Orthography | 9. Bibliography |
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