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myydä lyhyeksi — meaning in English

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English meaning

  • short adjective Not long in length, distance, or duration.

Senses

myydä lyhyeksi is used for these senses in English:

  • sell short (transitive, finance) To engage in the process of short selling (selling a stock one does not own on the premise of the stock's price going down).
  • short (transitive, business) To sell something, especially securities, that one does not own at the moment for delivery at a later date in hopes of profiting from a decline in the price; to sell short.

short — full definition

  1. adjective Not long in length, distance, or duration.
  2. adjective Of a person, not tall.
  3. adjective Curt or abrupt in manner.
  4. adjective Lacking enough of something, especially money.
  5. verb In finance, to bet that a stock or asset's price will fall by selling it before buying it back cheaper.

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