Short (finance)

Shorting in finance means that someone borrows shares of a company from someone else and then sells them, hoping that the price of the shares will go down. When the price of the shares decreases, the person who shorted the shares can buy them back at a lower price and return them to the original owner, keeping the difference in price for themselves as profit.

It's like borrowing a toy from a friend to play with it, and then returning it to them later. The difference is that instead of toys, people are borrowing and selling shares of a company, and instead of returning the toy, they buy back the shares later and keep the profit.