SHORT | definition in the Cambridge English Dictionary
SHORT meaning: 1. small in length, distance, or height: 2. used to say that a name is used as a shorter form of. Learn more.
SHORT meaning: 1. small in length, distance, or height: 2. used to say that a name is used as a shorter form of. Learn more.
: having little length or height : not long or tall.
If something is short or lasts for a short time, it does not last very long. The announcement was made a short time ago. Kemp gave a short laugh.
Officials have confirmed how Katherine Hartley Short, Martin Short''s daughter and a licensed clinical social worker, died at 42 years old.
SHORT definition: 1. having a small distance from one end to the other: 2. continuing for a small amount of time. Learn more.
SHORT definition: having little length; not long. See examples of short used in a sentence.
To short something such as stocks or a currency is to sell them in the expectation that falling prices will allow you to buy them back at a profit before they have to be delivered to the buyer.
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