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- noun commerce, finance The practice of selling items or stock which one does not currently possess.
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun sale of securities or commodity futures not owned by the seller (who hopes to buy them back later at a lower price)
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