Wiktionary
short selling
n. (context commerce finance English) The practice of selling items or stock which one does not currently possess. vb. (present participle of short sell English)
WordNet
short selling
n. sale of securities or commodity futures not owned by the seller (who hopes to buy them back later at a lower price) [syn: short sale]
Usage examples of "short selling".
Her second trade was the short selling of Trellco-thirty thousand shares at fifty-six and a quarter.