short-term loss

short-term loss definition - finance
A loss that occurs on an investment or on the purchase of an asset that occurs within one year from the investment date.

Webster's New World Finance and Investment Dictionary Copyright © 2003 by Wiley Publishing, Inc., Indianapolis, Indiana.
Used by arrangement with John Wiley & Sons, Inc.

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