short ton

noun

: a unit of weight equal to 2000 pounds see Weights and Measures Table

Examples of short ton in a Sentence

Recent Examples on the Web

State of play: North Carolina does not have one of the major ports along the East Coast, but the Port of Wilmington and Port of Morehead City moved a total of around 4.6 million short tons of cargo in its fiscal year 2023, a 12% increase year over year. —Zachery Eanes, Axios, 1 Oct. 2024

More than 50,000 short tons of steel and concrete fell into the river. —Hayes Gardner, Baltimore Sun, 7 May 2024

Annual coal exports from the Port of Baltimore have typically hovered around 20 million short tons over the past five years, with a notable exception occurring in 2020 due to the global impact of the COVID-19 pandemic. —Robert Rapier, Forbes, 28 Mar. 2024

In a news release, Warrior Met revised its overall outlook and financial targets for 2023, saying incremental production and sales volume will be approximately 500,000 short tons, primarily occurring in the second half of 2023. —William Thornton | [e-mail], al, 16 June 2023

The cocaine packages, buoyed by flotation devices, weighed 3.2 metric tons (3.5 short tons) and were valued at more than half a billion New Zealand dollars (about $318 million). —Jessie Yeung, CNN, 15 June 2023

Central Appalachian coal has been trading at $88.80 a short ton, down 57% from the record $205.55 at the start of the year. —Ryan Dezember, WSJ, 30 Mar. 2023

Cash prices in central Appalachia have climbed 40% in 2022—and more than doubled over the past year—to $129.65 a short ton last week, the highest price on record. —WSJ, 3 June 2022

Soymeal futures trading on the Chicago Board of Trade hit their highest level since June 2014 early this year, topping out at an intraday high of $474.10 per short ton on Jan. 12. —Kirk Maltais, WSJ, 16 Mar. 2021

Word History

First Known Use

1881, in the meaning defined above

Rhymes for short ton

• begun
• grandson
• gudrun
• handgun
• homespun
• outdone
• outrun
• pashtun
• redone
• rerun
• shotgun
• someone

Kids Definition

short ton

noun

: a unit of weight equal to 2000 pounds see measure