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 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 | Wthornton@al.com, 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 Last year domestic coal consumption fell to 687 million short tons, the lowest level since 1978, according to data released Monday by the Department of Energy. James Osborne, Houston Chronicle, 10 June 2019 The US Department of Agriculture estimates that in 2015, US farmers used 22 million short tons of fertilizer for plant production, or around 44 billion pounds (nearly 20 billion kilograms). David McKenzie, CNN, 6 Mar. 2020 The development will be a single longwall mine and is expected to have the capacity to produce an average of 4.3 million short tons per year of premium High-Vol A met coal over the first ten years of production. William Thornton | Wthornton@al.com, al, 1 Mar. 2020

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Word History

First Known Use

1881, in the meaning defined above

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The first known use of short ton was in 1881

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“Short ton.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/short%20ton. Accessed 19 Mar. 2024.

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short ton

noun
: a unit of weight equal to 2000 pounds see measure

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