go short (English, verb)
expansion: go short (third-person singular simple present goes short, present participle going short, simple past went short, past participle gone short)
Senses:
info_templates: extra_data: tags: of ‘something’
expansion: [with of ‘something’]
glosses: To have an insufficient amount.
tags: UK
intransitive
topics: business
finance
glosses: To sell a financial product (such as a share) now, even though one does not presently own it, in the hope of buying it more cheaply for delivery at a later date, so as to profit from a fall in price below the price at which one sold it; cf. go long.
Forms:
form: goes short
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: going short
tags: participle
present
form: went short
tags: past
form: gone short
tags: participle
past