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Synonyms

OTC

American  

  1. Also O.T.C. Officers' Training Corps.

  2. over-the-counter.

OTC British  

abbreviation

  1. (in Britain) Officers' Training Corps

  2. over-the-counter

  3. oxytetracycline

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The OTC market is operated by banks for wealthy customers who want to privately express their views, or who employ strategies that are difficult to complete in normal markets.

From Barron's • Feb. 4, 2026

That $30 jump is likely stale OTC data updating in chunks.

From MarketWatch • Dec. 12, 2025

Dylan and the rest of the MDR team knew that initiating the OTC protocol could mean trouble for them, but they proceeded anyway as they tried to understand the lives of their outies.

From Los Angeles Times • Jan. 15, 2025

OTC licensed the innovations to Eradivir for further development and commercialization.

From Science Daily • Nov. 19, 2024

OTC, Australia's then government-owned Overseas Telecommunications Commission,3 ran Minerva, a system of three Prime mainframes in Sydney.

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