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1 being an amount of time that is less than average or usual:
2 to not have enough of something:
3 saying little but showing slight impatience or anger in the few words that you say:
4 a drink of spirits (= type of strong alcohol) without water or any other liquid added:
5 a short film, especially one made for showing before the main film at a cinema
6 informal for short circuit
7 informal for short-circuit :
9 used with adjectives ending in -ed formed from nouns to describe something with a short part:
11 of a small amount of time, or less than the average or usual amount of time:
12 not reaching a desired amount or level; lacking:
The bill comes to $85, but we’re $15 short.
13 in a way that makes something short in length, distance, or height:
14 before the arranged or expected time or place:
I started to say something, but he cut me short (= stopped me from continuing).
15 not having enough of something that you need:
17 less than a particular amount:
18 used to describe the selling of shares that you have borrowed, hoping that their price will fall before you buy them back and return them to their owner, making a profit:
19 used to describe a shorter form of a name or word:
short for sth Ami is short for artificial machine intelligence.
for short Keep an eye on Canada's Northern Telecom, Nortel for short.
20 with little warning:
22 if you sell shares short, you sell shares that you have borrowed, hoping that their price will fall before you buy them back and return them to their owner, making a profit:
23 if you run short of something, you have too little of it left:
24 to sell shares that you have borrowed, hoping that their price will fall before you buy them back and return them to their owner, so that you make a profit:
As many as 27% of the company's shares have been shorted.