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Short Sale

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Noun

1. short sale, short selling

sale of securities or commodity futures not owned by the seller (who hopes to buy them back later at a lower price)

WordNet Lexical Database for English. Princeton University. 2010.

Short Sale

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a sale of securities or commodities which the seller does not yet have but expects to cover later at a lower price

Webster’s New World College Dictionary, 4th Edition. Copyright © 2010 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt. All rights reserved.

Short Sale

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n.
1. The sale of a borrowed security in anticipation of making a profit by repurchasing it after its price has fallen.
2. An investment in an exchange-traded fund or derivative security whose performance is inversely related to that of a particular index.
3. The sale of a property for less than the amount owed on it, with the lender consenting to accept the lesser amount and cancel the debt in lieu of instituting foreclosure proceedings.

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