SHORT SALE as NOUN

1. Meaning
   • sale of securities or commodity futures not owned by the seller (who hopes to buy them back later at a lower price)
   Synonym(s)
   • short selling (what does short selling mean?)
   Hypernyms(s) short sale is a kind of… Example: animal is a hypernym of mammal, plant is a hypernym of flower
   • trading (what does trading mean?)