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
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Etymology
Origin of odd lot
First recorded in 1895–1900
Example Sentences
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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.
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And they are not investing in cheap stocks: the average stock bought in an odd lot now costs $52 v.
From Time Magazine Archive
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
This time the family whose strangely assorted Linen hangs out to dry is an odd lot of small-town Virginians.
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Must they dine in the daytime, because, being an odd lot, they cannot sit down to dinner at eventide?
From Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 99, October 18, 1890 by Various
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