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From WordNet (r) 2.0 :   [ wn ]

  sell short
       v 1: sell securities or commodities or foreign currency that is
            not actually owned by the seller, who hopes to cover
            (buy back) the sold items at a lower price and thus to
            earn a profit
       2: underestimate the real value or ability of; "Don't sell your
          students short--they are just shy and don't show off their
          knowledge"

From English Wiktionary: All languages (2023-07-27) :   [ dictinfo.com:wikt-en-ALL-2023-07-27 ]

  sell short
     alt.
     1 (lb en transitive finance) To engage in the process of short
  selling (selling a stock one does not own on the premise of the stock's
  price going down).
     2 (alternative form of en sell oneself short)
     3 To underestimate the value of something.
     vb.
     1 (lb en transitive finance) To engage in the process of short
  selling (selling a stock one does not own on the premise of the stock's
  price going down).
     2 (alternative form of en sell oneself short)
     3 To underestimate the value of something.

From English Wiktionary: English language only (2023-07-27) :   [ dictinfo.com:wikt-en-en-2023-07-27 ]

  sell short
     alt.
     1 (lb en transitive finance) To engage in the process of short
  selling (selling a stock one does not own on the premise of the stock's
  price going down).
     2 (alternative form of en sell oneself short)
     3 To underestimate the value of something.
     vb.
     1 (lb en transitive finance) To engage in the process of short
  selling (selling a stock one does not own on the premise of the stock's
  price going down).
     2 (alternative form of en sell oneself short)
     3 To underestimate the value of something.

From English Wiktionary: Western languages only (2023-07-27) :   [ dictinfo.com:wikt-en-Western-2023-07-27 ]

  sell short
     alt.
     1 (lb en transitive finance) To engage in the process of short
  selling (selling a stock one does not own on the premise of the stock's
  price going down).
     2 (alternative form of en sell oneself short)
     3 To underestimate the value of something.
     vb.
     1 (lb en transitive finance) To engage in the process of short
  selling (selling a stock one does not own on the premise of the stock's
  price going down).
     2 (alternative form of en sell oneself short)
     3 To underestimate the value of something.

From English - German Ding/FreeDict dictionary ver. 1.9-fd1 :   [ freedict:eng-deu ]

  sell short /sˈɛl ʃˈɔːt/
  blanko verkaufen, einen Leerverkauf tätigen
     Synonym: short
  
   see: uncovered sale, short sale, bear sale, short selling, selling short, shorting
  

From English-suomi FreeDict+WikDict dictionary ver. 2023.05.29 :   [ freedict:eng-fin ]

  sell short /sˈɛl ʃˈɔːt/ 
  myydä lyhyeksi, shortata
  finance: to engage in the process of short selling

From Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 :   [ moby-thesaurus ]

  51 Moby Thesaurus words for "sell short":
     belittle, clear the trade, close out, convert, convert into cash,
     cut under, deprecate, depreciate, disparage, dump, effect a sale,
     job, liquidate, make a sale, make light of, make little of,
     make nothing of, market, merchandise, minimize, misestimate,
     misprize, move, resell, retail, sacrifice, sell, sell off,
     sell on consignment, sell out, sell over, sell retail, sell up,
     sell wholesale, set at naught, set little by, shrug off,
     terminate the account, think little of, think nothing of,
     turn into money, turn over, undercut, underestimate, underprize,
     underrate, underreckon, undersell, undervalue, unload, wholesale
  
  

From XDICT the English-Chinese dictionary :   [ xdict ]

     买空卖空;低估,轻视

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