| SHO | (phonetics) of speech sounds (especially vowels) of relatively short duration (as e.g. the English vowel sounds in `pat', `pet', `pit', `pot', putt') |
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| SHO | (finance) not holding securities or commodities that one sells in expectation of a fall in prices |
| SHO | unwilling to endure |
| SHO | lacking foresight or scope |
| SHO | (of memory) deficient in retentiveness or range |
| SHO | (prosody) used of syllables that are unaccented or of relatively brief duration |
| SHO | not sufficient to meet a need |
| SHO | less than the correct or legal or full amount often deliberately so |
| SHO | low in stature |
| SHO | containing a large amount of shortening |
| SHO | quickly and without warning |
| SHO | in a curt, abrupt and discourteous manner |