Hedge funds, investors and currency speculators are now shorting sterling in volumes not seen, even during the 2008 financial crash.
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Shorting
Synonyms for "shorting" (19 found)
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Noun(4 words)
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Noun(6 words)
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15 entriescircuit conditioncircuit faultediting actionediting operationelectrical conditionelectrical faultfinancial activityfinancial practiceinvestment activityinvestment practiceinvestment strategymodificationtext modificationtradingtrading activity
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23 entriesabridgingcompressingcondensingcovered shortingdocument trimmingground faultline to line faultnaked shortingpartial shortpower rail shortingshorting activityshorting conductorshorting futuresshorting linkshorting optionsshorting path
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Collocations
17 entriescircuit faultground faultnaked shortingshort circuitshort durationshort positionshort saleshort sellingshort termshorting activityshorting barshorting costshorting marketshorting positionshorting riskshorting strategy
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Inflections
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9 entriesSample sentences
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[…] rotted and cracked, and occasionally the water would seep through to the bare wires and cause shortings and electric fires.
Source: wiktionary
There was a signal station, an old Italian military relic, the equipment in it so dangerous, due to electrical shortings, that the Italian soldier who looked after it used to pray before he used it.
Source: wiktionary
Being “free surface” it made the rolling linger longer at the extremes, and it was this lingering that was causing the shortings and the blackouts to last longer.
Source: wiktionary