sell short
verb
1 sell short
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.
Roget 799a: speculate, invest, trade, trade stocks, play the market; buy long, sell short, take a position, straddle; take a plunge, plunge in, take a flier [Coll.].
2 sell short
Underestimate the real value or ability of.
Moby thesaurus: belittle, clear the trade, close out, convert, convert into cash, cut under, deprecate, depreciate, disparage, dump, effect a sale, job, liquidate, make a sale, make light of, make little of, make nothing of, market, merchandise, minimize ... show more.
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