short account

noun

, Finance.

1. the account of a short seller.
2. short interest.

short account

noun

1. the aggregate of short sales on an open market, esp a stock market
2. the account of a stock-market speculator who sells short

Word History and Origins

Origin of short account¹

First recorded in 1900–05

Example Sentences

Petrie and his colleagues have been asked to contribute to the institution’s historical record by writing accounts of their experiences as Temple students — short accounts, thank you, no more than 10 pages.

From New York Times

The Time Traveller went back to his home era and wrote up a short account of his visit to ad 2203.

From Nature

Mark Ley-Morgan, counsel for Bedfordshire Police Professional Standards, accused PC Ross of deliberately writing a short account of what happened that night.

From BBC

Moscow's short account gave no evidence for its suggestion that a group was sending chemical weaponry to Iraq.

From BBC

Nor was she mentioned in “Sunshine Muse: Contemporary Art on the West Coast,” my short account of the same historical period, published almost 40 years earlier.

From Wall Street Journal