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Definition: Short Sale |
Short SaleNoun1. Sale of securities or commodity futures not owned by the seller (who hopes to buy them back later at a lower price). Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
| Domain | Definition |
Business | The sale of securities which the seller does not possess at the time the deal is made. Source: European Union. (references) |
Finance | Selling a security that the seller does not own but is committed to repurchasing eventually. It is used to capitalize on an expected decline in the security's price. Source: European Union. (references) |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
Synonym: Short SaleSynonym: short selling (n). (additional references) |
Crosswords: Short Sale |
| English words defined with "short sale": short covering. (references) |
Expression using "short sale": protected short sale. Additional references. | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. |
| The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com. |
| Expression | Frequency per Day |
short sale | 72 |
real estate short sale | 22 |
foreclosure short sale | 14 |
mortgage short sale | 11 |
house short sale | 3 |
home short sale | 3 |
preforeclosure short sale | 2 |
stock short sale | 2 |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| Language | Translations for "short sale"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | |
Danish | salg af udækket option (naked option writing, short selling, uncovered option writing, uncovered sale), udstedelse af udækket option (naked option writing, short selling, uncovered option writing, uncovered sale), handel uden dækning (selling short, short selling, uncovered sale), blankosalg (selling short, short selling, uncovered sale). (various references) | |
Dutch | short verkopen (naked option writing, short selling, uncovered option writing, uncovered sale), short gaan (naked option writing, short selling, uncovered option writing, uncovered sale), verkoop vanuit een ongedekte positie (selling short, short selling, uncovered sale), uncovered option writing (naked option writing, short selling, uncovered option writing, uncovered sale), ongedekt schrijven (naked option writing, short selling, uncovered option writing, uncovered sale), naked option writing (naked option writing, short selling, uncovered option writing, uncovered sale), naakt schrijven (naked option writing, short selling, uncovered option writing, uncovered sale), blanco verkoop (selling short, short selling, uncovered sale), baisse transactie (selling short, short selling, uncovered sale). (various references) | |
Finnish | myydä katteetta (selling short, short selling, uncovered sale), kattamattoman option myynti (naked option writing, short selling, uncovered option writing, uncovered sale). (various references) | |
French | vente nue (short selling), vente d'option nue (short selling), vente d'option non couverte (short selling), vente à découvert (selling short, short selling), transaction à la baisse (selling short, short selling). (various references) | |
German | Verkauf einer nackten Option (naked option writing, short selling, uncovered option writing, uncovered sale), Leerverkauf (selling short, short selling, uncovered sale), Blankoverkauf (selling short, short selling, uncovered sale). (various references) | |
Greek | ακάλυπτη πώληση οψιόν (naked option writing, short selling, uncovered option writing, uncovered sale), ακάλυπτη πώληση (selling short, short selling, uncovered sale). (various references) | |
Italian | vendita di contratto a premio non coperto (naked option writing, short selling, uncovered option writing, uncovered sale), vendita allo scoperto (selling short, short selling, uncovered sale). (various references) | |
Pig Latin | ortshay alesay.(various references) | |
Portuguese | venda de uma opção desprotegida (naked option writing, short selling, uncovered option writing, uncovered sale), venda a descoberto (selling short, short selling, uncovered sale). (various references) | |
Spanish | venta de opción sin cubrir (naked option writing, short selling, uncovered option writing, uncovered sale), venta de opción sin cobertura (naked option writing, short selling, uncovered option writing, uncovered sale), venta de opción desnuda (naked option writing, short selling, uncovered option writing, uncovered sale), venta de opción al descubierto (naked option writing, short selling, uncovered option writing, uncovered sale). (various references) | |
Swedish | utfärdande av naken option (naked option writing, short selling, uncovered option writing, uncovered sale), blankning (selling short, short selling, to sell bear, to sell in bear, to sell short, to sell uncovered, uncovered sale). (various references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references. | ||
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "a-e-h-l-o-r-s-s-t" | |
-1 letter: earshots, harslets, hoarsest, holsters, hostlers, loathers, ratholes, shoalest, slathers. | |
-2 letters: artless, ashlers, earshot, halters, harlots, harslet, haslets, hatless, holster, horstes, hostels, hostler, lashers, lassoer, lasters, lathers, loather, loathes, oarless, ostlers, rashest, rathole, salters, serosal, sheltas, shoaler, slasher, slaters, slather, solates, sterols, thalers, trashes. | |
-3 letters: ahorse, alerts, alters, artels, ashler, ashore, assert, assort, asters. | |
| Words containing the letters "a-e-h-l-o-r-s-s-t" | |
+1 letter: horsetails, trehaloses. | |
+2 letters: orthoclases, spheroplast, thimerosals. | |
+3 letters: hydrolysates, prothalluses, schoolmaster, slaughterous, spheroplasts, stadtholders, stakeholders, stallholders, urolithiases. | |
+4 letters: archeologists, chromatolyses, erythroblasts, heterosexuals, phraseologist, relationships, rhinoplasties, schoolmasters, southeasterly, strangleholds, stylographies. | |
+5 letters: amphiprostyles, archaeologists, blepharoplasts, cholinesterase, claustrophobes, historicalness, lachrymosities, legislatorship, phosphorylates, phraseologists, plethysmograms, rehospitalizes, schoolmasterly, schoolteachers, slaughterhouse, slaughterously, thermoplastics. | |
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