odd lot
Americannoun
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a quantity or amount less than the conventional unit of trading.
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Stock Exchange. (in a transaction) a quantity of stock less than the established 100-share unit for active issues or the 10-share unit for designated inactive issues.
noun
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a batch of merchandise that contains less than or more than the usual number of units
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stock exchange a number of securities less than the standard trading unit of 100
Other Word Forms
- odd-lot adjective
Etymology
Origin of odd lot
First recorded in 1895–1900
Example Sentences
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Nobody knew anything about him except that he liked to give expensive parties at one of London's most expensive hotels, that the guests were chosen with care but were an odd lot.
From Time Magazine Archive
Last month, while Dr. Gallup was on vacation, his staff at Princeton, N.J. drew up an odd lot of questions designed to give some kind of picture of Homo americanus.
From Time Magazine Archive
The most colorful of the odd lot was Charles Augustus Howell.
From Time Magazine Archive
Small shop-keepers are inclined to favor this "odd lot buying," as it enables them to save the tinfoil cigarette wrappings and sell them back to the cigarette manufacturers for an additional profit.
From Time Magazine Archive
We’ve got the lots—give’em anything from a fifteen-thousand-dollar-restriction, water-front, high-class development to an odd lot behind an Italian truck-farm.
From The Job An American Novel by Lewis, Sinclair
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