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noun

a quantity or amount less than the conventional unit of trading.

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.

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Also called broken lot.

Compare round lot.

Origin of odd lot

First recorded in 1895–1900

OTHER WORDS FROM odd lot

odd-lot, adjective

Words nearby odd lot

Odd Fellow, oddish, oddity, odd-job, odd-jobman, odd lot, odd-lotter, odd-man, odd man out, odd-man rush, oddment

How to use odd lot in a sentence

I think a lot of it has to do with the attitude and the energy behind it and the honesty.
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There was a lot of positive feedback from people interested in non-gender binary people.
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If anything the work the two cops and the maintenance guy were doing deserves more respect and probably helped a lot more people.
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A lot of people ring in the New Year with vows to lose weight and exercise.
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And extortion makes a lot more sense before a story hits the news wire, not after.
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If the "Y" Beach lot press their advantage they may cut off the enemy troops on the toe of the Peninsula.
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In the old world, poverty seemed, and poverty was, the natural and inevitable lot of the greater portion of mankind.
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Seen thus poverty became rather a blessing than a curse, or at least a dispensation prescribing the proper lot of man.
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Then the enemy's howitzers and field guns had it all their own way, forcing attack to yield a lot of ground.
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I have seen a lot of Bolshevik propaganda and it is not very convincing stuff.
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British Dictionary definitions for odd lot

odd lot

noun

a batch of merchandise that contains less than or more than the usual number of units

stock exchange a number of securities less than the standard trading unit of 100

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odd lot

Origin of odd lot

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British Dictionary definitions for odd lot