To employ insufficient staff in (a facility)

plural of short s

plural of short ess

Alternative form of short s

plural of short block

(automotive) An engine subassembly comprising the portion of the cylinder block below the cylinder head gasket but above the oil pan (and including neither).

(chess) To castle on the kingside.

(finance) An investment position in a futures deal, where the trader places a call order and a put order at the same time on the same item, in hopes of the item remaining at the same price when the order expires, neither falling nor rising, straddling the divide, so as to reap the premiums of the unexercised call and put.

short-winded; panting; breathless; in a state of breathlessness

(iceskating) A short-track speedskating oval. / (motor racing) A speedway oval of less than one mile in track circuit length.