short sale
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7.8
- noun
- /ʃɔrt seɪl/
- Specialized
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venta en corto
- After all, a short sale is the supply of distressed properties that is hitting the market.
It means that you can only get filled on a short sale when the stock price ticks up.
- It means that you can only get filled on a short sale when the stock price ticks up.
- Now let's talk about short sales and how you can make bank with short sales.
Examples
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In 2008, when short sales first came back on the scene, I started tracking their impact.
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There are many options, such as a short sale, which may be able to help you.
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The second wave of short sales just started down here.
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Now let's talk about short sales and how you can make bank with short sales.
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We can help you succeed with short sales!
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In a short sale, you need a fully executed contract to put a bid in.
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Another option is to find a buyer and offer the lender a short sale.
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The seller of a short sale has no financial interest in maximizing the sales price.
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Saturday afternoon, I received a call from someone facing an impending foreclosure who wanted details about a short sale.
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In a short sale, the investor sells borrowed shares of a stock, hoping to repurchase them at a lower price.
Synonyms
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6.6
Selling shares you do not own to buy them back later at a lower price to make a profit
Antonyms
Surface Forms
Morphology
This is a specialized financial/legal term whose sense — selling a property for less than the mortgage balance with the lender's agreement — is not predictable from the everyday meanings of 'short' and 'sale'. A B1 learner who knows common senses of the constituents would not infer the debt-relief and lender-approval aspects, so the expression functions as a technical idiomatic collocation.
Etymology
Short sale comes from the idea of a short sale, a sale made when the seller does not own the item. Imagine you borrow shares and sell them now, then hope to 'buy them back' later at a lower price to make a profit. That's why a short sale means selling something you don't own to gain if the price falls.