short-sell — /ʃɔt ˈsɛl/ (say shawt sel) verb (short sold, short selling) Stock Exchange –verb (t) 1. to sell (commodities or stocks) by short selling. –verb (i) 2. to engage in short selling. –short seller, noun …
short sell — See: short selling … English dictionary
Short Sell Against the Box — The act of short selling securities that you already own. This results in a neutral position where your gains in a stock are equal to the losses. For example, if you own 100 shares of ABC and you tell your broker to sell short 100 shares of ABC,… … Investment dictionary
sell — ► VERB (past and past part. sold) 1) hand over in exchange for money. 2) deal in (goods or property). 3) (of goods) attain sales. 4) (sell out) sell all of one s stock of something. 5) (sell up) sell all of one s proper … English terms dictionary
short-selling — UK [ˌʃɔː(r)tˈselɪŋ] / US [ˌʃɔrtˈselɪŋ] or shorting UK / US noun [uncountable] economics the practice of selling borrowed securities and then buying them again at a lower price Derived word: short sell verb intransitive/transitive … English dictionary
Short (finance) — Schematic representation of short selling in two steps. The short seller borrows shares and immediately sells them. He then waits, hoping for the stock price to decrease, when the seller can profit by purchasing the shares to return to the lender … Wikipedia
sell short — verb 1. 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 • Topics: ↑commerce, ↑commercialism, ↑mercantilism •… … Useful english dictionary
sell — sell1 [ sel ] (past tense and past participle sold [ sould ] ) verb *** 1. ) transitive to exchange something for money: They ve already sold over two million copies of their record. sell something at a profit/loss (=for more/less money than you… … Usage of the words and phrases in modern English
sell — I UK [sel] / US verb Word forms sell : present tense I/you/we/they sell he/she/it sells present participle selling past tense sold UK [səʊld] / US [soʊld] past participle sold *** 1) [transitive] to exchange something for money They ve already… … English dictionary
sell — Synonyms and related words: abalienate, advertise, alien, alienate, amortize, argue into, assign, assure, ballyhoo, bark, barter, be convincing, be in, be sold, bequeath, betray, bill, boost, brim, bring, bring home to, bring in, bring over,… … Moby Thesaurus