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Verb
go short (third-person singular simple present goes short, present participle going short, simple past went short, past participle gone short)
- (UK, intransitive) To have an insufficient amount.
My parents were very poor, and we often went short of food.
- (finance) To sell a financial product (such as a share) now, even though one does not presently own it, in the hope of buying it more cheaply for delivery at a later date, so as to profit from a fall in price below the price at which one sold it; cf. go long.
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