shorter
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Pronunciation
- (Received Pronunciation) IPA(key): /ˈʃɔːtə/
- (General American, Canada) IPA(key): /ˈʃɔɹtɚ/, [ˈʃɔɹɾɚ]
Audio (Southern California): (file)
- (General Australian, New Zealand) IPA(key): /ˈʃoːtə/, [ˈʃoːɾə]
- Rhymes: -ɔː(ɹ)tə(ɹ)
- Hyphenation: short‧er
Adjective
shorter
- comparative form of short: more short.
- There are two routes to get there. We're in a rush so we'll take the shorter one.
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Translations
more short
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Noun
shorter (plural shorters)
- (colloquial) A short, a short seller: one who engages in short selling.
- (UK, slang, obsolete) One who makes a dishonest profit by clipping and filing coins.
- 1858, George Borrow, The Romany Rye, volume 2, page 128:
- My grandfather, as I said before, was connected with a gang of shorters, and sometimes shortened money, […]
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