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Definition of Short covering
1. Noun. The purchase of securities or commodities by a short seller to close out a short sale.
Lexicographical Neighbors of Short Covering
Literary usage of Short covering
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Money and Investments; a Reference Book for the Use of Those Desiring by Montgomery Rollins (1907)
"short covering. When any one has sold a security " short," and thinks it the ...
This is called a " short covering." The " shorts are covering " when a ..."
2. Money and Investments: A Reference Book for Use of Those Desiring by Montgomery Rollins, Percy W. Brown (1917)
"short covering. When any one has sold a security " short," and thinks it the
proper time to buy it, in order to make delivery in accordance with his ..."
3. Capital (1888)
"The recovery is due as much to renewed bull support as to short-covering and ...
Renewed bull support and short-covering have produced a smart rally. ..."
4. Thomas Gibson's Weekly Market Letters, 1908 by Thomas Gibson (1909)
"retrogression in general conditions, but to hear these gentlemen discourse it
would appear that "short covering" was the only stimulus a market ever ..."
5. Investigations of the Aquatic Resources and Fisheries of Porto Rico by United States Bureau of Fisheries, Barton Warren Evermann, Millard Caleb Marsh, William A. Wilcox (1900)
"Dorsal very short, is rays, on 1 +n rings; rings 17 + :>,:!; snout short jnm*i.
m ddd. Dorsal very short, covering ..."
6. Annual Report by Maryland Agricultural Experiment Station (1907)
"However, the life cycle is short, covering from six weeks to two months, and,
consequently, the scale increases quite rapidly during a season. ..."
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