Definition of "shorting" [shorting]

• Present participle of short. (verb)

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• "While there are many polls-of-polls, for this exercise in "shorting" a candidate, we will look to InTrade. com."
• "Some of these funds buy stocks but also engage in shorting, or selling a borrowed stock in hopes that its pri ce will fall, allowing it to be purchased later at a lower price."
• "It stinks, half the shorting is probably naked and we small investors are being brutalized."