(finance) A financial instrument bought with the expectation that it will decrease in value.

plural of short position

Misspelling of short shrift.

(transitive, idiomatic) To do (a task) quicker or easier. / (transitive, idiomatic) To deal with or overcome (someone or something) quickly and without difficulty.

To select the shortest straw or other object while drawing straws. / (idiomatic) To be selected to do an undesirable task (by drawing the shortest straw or otherwise).

the system for transmitting text messages on mobile phones

(chiefly Britain) A regime intended to deter crime by making an immediate severe impact.

(computing) A logical operator that returns a value as soon as the outcome is certain, without necessarily testing all operands (for example, an OR operator returning true if the first operand evaluates as true, without evaluating the second operand).

Alternative spelling of short circuit operator

(algebra) An exact sequence of precisely three nontrivial objects (e.g., modules).