noun

shorting

noun

The practice of short selling — betting a stock or asset will fall in price.

"Shorting a volatile stock can lead to huge losses if the price rises instead."

A short circuit or electrical fault.

"The engineer traced the outage to shorting in the wiring."

How to Use Shorting

Learner’s notes

In plain EnglishBetting on a price drop (finance), or an electrical fault.

Common pairings

shorting the market short selling

shortings plural

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_____ a volatile stock can lead to huge losses if the price rises instead.

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