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SHORT ACCOUNT
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Dictionary entry overview: What does short account mean?
• SHORT ACCOUNT (noun)
The noun SHORT ACCOUNT has 2 senses:
1. a brokerage account of someone who sells short (sells securities he does not own)
2. the aggregate of short sales on an open market
Familiarity information: SHORT ACCOUNT used as a noun is rare.
Dictionary entry details
Sense 1
Meaning:
A brokerage account of someone who sells short (sells securities he does not own)
Classified under:
Nouns denoting stable states of affairs
Hypernyms ("short account" is a kind of...):
account; business relationship (a formal contractual relationship established to provide for regular banking or brokerage or business services)
Sense 2
Meaning:
The aggregate of short sales on an open market
Classified under:
Nouns denoting communicative processes and contents
Hypernyms ("short account" is a kind of...):
index; index number; indicant; indicator (a number or ratio (a value on a scale of measurement) derived from a series of observed facts; can reveal relative changes as a function of time)
Context examples
A short account of myself, I believe, will be necessary, and it SHALL be a short one.
(Sense and Sensibility, by Jane Austen)
She gave him a short account of her party and business at Lyme.
(Persuasion, by Jane Austen)
She carried a little book in her pocket, not much larger than a Sanson’s Atlas; it was a common treatise for the use of young girls, giving a short account of their religion: out of this she taught me my letters, and interpreted the words.
(Gulliver's Travels into several remote nations of the world, by Jonathan Swift)
I gave him a short account of some particulars, and made my story as plausible and consistent as I could; but I thought it necessary to disguise my country, and call myself a Hollander; because my intentions were for Japan, and I knew the Dutch were the only Europeans permitted to enter into that kingdom.
(Gulliver's Travels into several remote nations of the world, by Jonathan Swift)
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