• (Received Pronunciation)IPA^(key): /ˈʃɔːtə/
• (General American, Canada)IPA^(key): /ˈʃɔɹtɚ/,[ˈʃɔɹɾɚ]

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• (General Australian, New Zealand)IPA^(key): /ˈʃoːtə/,[ˈʃoːɾə]
• Rhymes:-ɔː(ɹ)tə(ɹ)
• Hyphenation:short‧er

shorter

1. comparative form ofshort: moreshort.

   There are two routes to get there. We're in a rush so we'll take theshorter one.

   • 2025 February 5, Philip Haigh, “Where track and train integration will be put to the test”, inRAIL, number1028, page51:

     Basingstoke-Exeter will test this. FromSalisbury westwards, it's largelysingle-track since British Rail downgraded it in 1967. There's a ten-mile loop betweenTemplecombe andYeovil, as well asshorter loops atChard,Axminster andHoniton.

• shortest

shorter (pluralshorters)

1. (colloquial) Ashort, ashort seller: one who engages inshort selling.
2. (UK, slang, obsolete) One who makes a dishonest profit by clipping and filing coins.
   • 1858, George Borrow,The Romany Rye, volume 2, page128:

     My grandfather, as I said before, was connected with a gang ofshorters, and sometimes shortened money,[…]

• Rothers,rethors,rhetors,rothers

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