"sell short" meaning in English

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      "form": "sells short",
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      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "selling short",
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        "participle",
        "present"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "sold short",
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        "past"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "sold short",
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        "past"
      ]
    }
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      },
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      "name": "en-verb"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "verb",
  "senses": [
    {
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        {
          "kind": "topical",
          "langcode": "en",
          "name": "Finance",
          "orig": "en:Finance",
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        {
          "ref": "2011 July 18, John Cassidy, “Mastering the Machine”, in The New Yorker, →ISSN",
          "text": "George Soros famously did this in 1992—selling short some ten billion dollars’ worth of sterling. A few years ago, John Paulson wagered hugely against U.S. mortgage bonds and made several billion dollars.",
          "type": "quotation"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "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)."
      ],
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        ],
        [
          "short selling",
          "short selling"
        ]
      ],
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(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)."
      ],
      "tags": [
        "transitive"
      ],
      "topics": [
        "business",
        "finance"
      ],
      "translations": [
        {
          "_dis1": "86 13 1",
          "code": "fi",
          "lang": "Finnish",
          "sense": "finance: to engage in the process of short selling",
          "word": "myydä lyhyeksi"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "86 13 1",
          "code": "fi",
          "lang": "Finnish",
          "sense": "finance: to engage in the process of short selling",
          "word": "shortata"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "86 13 1",
          "code": "de",
          "lang": "German",
          "sense": "finance: to engage in the process of short selling",
          "word": "leerverkaufen"
        }
      ]
    },
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      "alt_of": [
        {
          "word": "sell oneself short"
        }
      ],
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        "Alternative form of sell oneself short"
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          "sell oneself short",
          "sell oneself short#English"
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        {
          "_dis1": "37 63 0",
          "word": "short position"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "37 63 0",
          "word": "short sale"
        }
      ],
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        {
          "_dis1": "37 63 0",
          "word": "short sell"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "37 63 0",
          "word": "short-sell"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "37 63 0",
          "word": "short"
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      "examples": [
        {
          "text": "Don't sell yourself short. You're better than most around here.",
          "type": "example"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "To underestimate the value of something."
      ],
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      "links": [
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          "underestimate",
          "underestimate"
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      ]
    }
  ],
  "word": "sell short"
}

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      "form": "sells short",
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        "present",
        "singular",
        "third-person"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "selling short",
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        "participle",
        "present"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "sold short",
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        "participle",
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      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "sold short",
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        "past"
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    }
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  "pos": "verb",
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    {
      "word": "short position"
    },
    {
      "word": "short sale"
    }
  ],
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          "text": "George Soros famously did this in 1992—selling short some ten billion dollars’ worth of sterling. A few years ago, John Paulson wagered hugely against U.S. mortgage bonds and made several billion dollars.",
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        }
      ],
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        "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)."
      ],
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        ],
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        "(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)."
      ],
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        "transitive"
      ],
      "topics": [
        "business",
        "finance"
      ]
    },
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      ],
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        "Alternative form of sell oneself short"
      ],
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          "sell oneself short",
          "sell oneself short#English"
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      ],
      "examples": [
        {
          "text": "Don't sell yourself short. You're better than most around here.",
          "type": "example"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "To underestimate the value of something."
      ],
      "links": [
        [
          "underestimate",
          "underestimate"
        ]
      ]
    }
  ],
  "synonyms": [
    {
      "word": "short sell"
    },
    {
      "word": "short-sell"
    },
    {
      "word": "short"
    }
  ],
  "translations": [
    {
      "code": "fi",
      "lang": "Finnish",
      "sense": "finance: to engage in the process of short selling",
      "word": "myydä lyhyeksi"
    },
    {
      "code": "fi",
      "lang": "Finnish",
      "sense": "finance: to engage in the process of short selling",
      "word": "shortata"
    },
    {
      "code": "de",
      "lang": "German",
      "sense": "finance: to engage in the process of short selling",
      "word": "leerverkaufen"
    }
  ],
  "word": "sell short"
}