go short
Example Sentences
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Moving the advertising boards and reducing the run-in space might persuade a team to go short more often.
From BBC • Nov. 22, 2025
To bet against a stock's price, or go short, hedge funds pay fees to borrow the stock and post assets as collateral with the banks, meant to act as insurance against default.
From Reuters • May 24, 2023
“Our mandate is to find the 200 best companies in the world and invest in them and find the 200 worst companies in the world and go short on them,” he would explain.
From New York Times • Aug. 23, 2022
What do you have to go short with?
From Slate • Jan. 18, 2022
He spoke as if he meant it, and I was mournfully wondering what I ought to do to get Gladys to go, short of being downright rude, when Elizabeth drifted into the problem.
From Our Elizabeth A Humour Novel by Kilpatrick, Florence A. (Florence Antoinette)
