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adverb Short adv. In a short manner; briefly; limitedly; abruptly; quickly; as, to stop short in one's course; to turn short. "He was taken up very short, and adjudged corrigible for such presumptuous language." To sell short (Stock Exchange), to sell, for future delivery, what the party selling does not own, but hopes to buy at a lower rate.
Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48
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