short-sell
short-sell is the alternative form of sell short.
Meaning of sell short
Verb
sell short (third-person singular simple present sells short, present participle selling short, simple past and past participle sold short)
- To engage in the process of short selling (selling a stock one does not own on the premise of the stock's price going down).
- George Soros famously did this in 1992—selling short some ten billion dollars’ worth of sterling. A few years ago, John Paulson wagered hugely against U.S. mortgage bonds and made several billion dollars.2011 July 18, John Cassidy, “Mastering the Machine”, in The New Yorker, →ISSN
- To underestimate the value of something; to understate its value.
- Near-synonym: undersell
- Synonyms:
- underprice, understate, misunderestimate, underapproximate, underestimate, underguess, underjudge, underrate, underreckon, undersell
- Antonyms:
- overstate, overvalue, overapproximate, overestimate, overhold, overrate, overreckon, overthink
Forms of short-sell
| third-person singular present | short-sells |
|---|---|
| present participle | short-selling |
| past participle | short-sold |
| past | short-sold |
Questions about short-sell
- What is short-sell the alternative form of?
- Short-sell is the alternative form of sell short.
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Adapted from Wiktionary: short-sell (page history and authors); sell short (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.
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