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shortings

shortings is the plural of shorting.

Meaning of shorting

Noun

shorting (countable and uncountable, plural shortings)

  1. short selling
  2. short circuit; outage
    • […] rotted and cracked, and occasionally the water would seep through to the bare wires and cause shortings and electric fires.1969, Tighe, Donald J., Source idea technique: a writer's reader, Holbrook Press, page 126

Questions about shortings

What is shortings the plural of?
Shortings is the plural of shorting.

Words near shortings in the dictionary

  1. shorties
  2. shortify
  3. shorting
  4. shorting down
  5. shorting out
  6. shortings
  7. shortish
  8. shortite
  9. Shortland
  10. Shortland Island
  11. Shortland Islands

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Adapted from Wiktionary: shortings (page history and authors); shorting (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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