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 

• SHORT ACCOUNT (noun)

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)