Found 1 items, similar to To sell short.
English → English (gcide)
Definition: To sell short
Short
\Short\, adv.
In a short manner; briefly; limitedly; abruptly; quickly; as,
to stop short in one's course; to turn short.
[1913 Webster]
He was taken up very short, and adjudged corrigible for
such presumptuous language. --Howell.
[1913 Webster]
To sell short (Stock Exchange), to sell, for future
delivery, what the party selling does not own, but hopes
to buy at a lower rate.
[1913 Webster]