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short down

short down verb: to reduce the price of a stock by selling short.

Verb

short down (third-person singular simple present shorts down, present participle shorting down, simple past and past participle shorted down)

  1. (informal, transitive) To reduce the price of a stock by selling short.
  2. (informal, intransitive, nonstandard) To turn off due to a malfunction.
  3. Synonym of shorten up.
    Synonyms:
    shorten up

Synonyms of short down

Forms of short down

third-person singular presentshorts down
present participleshorting down
past participleshorted down
pastshorted down

Questions about short down

What does short down mean?
Short down means to reduce the price of a stock by selling short.
What part of speech is short down?
Short down is a verb.
What is the past tense of short down?
The past tense of short down is shorted down.

Words near short down in the dictionary

  1. short crosses
  2. short cut
  3. short cuts
  4. short division
  5. short divisions
  6. short down
  7. short dozen
  8. short dozens
  9. short drink
  10. short drinks
  11. short drop

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