go short
English
Verb
go short (third-person singular simple present goes short, present participle going short, simple past went short, past participle gone short)
- (Britain) (intransitive, or transitive with of) To have an insufficient amount (of).
- My parents were very poor, and we often went short of food.
- (finance) To sell a financial product, such as a share, that one does not presently own, as in the hope of buying it more cheaply later for delivery, so as to profit from a fall in price; cf. go long.
Further reading
- “go short of something” in Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English, Longman.
- “go short of something” (US) / “go short of something” (UK) in Macmillan English Dictionary.
- “go short” in the Collins English Dictionary