Otc

  

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Otc

Definition: Otc

Otc

Adjective

1. (of securities) not quoted on a stock exchange; "over-the-counter stocks".

Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
 


Abbreviations & Acronyms: Otc

The following table is compiled from various sources, across various languages. When English abbreviations or acronyms come from a non-English source, this is noted.
EntrySourceExpressionField

OTC

DanishUden for BørsenFinance

OTC

DutchOTC-geneesmiddelenN/A

OTC

EnglishOpen-top chambersN/A

Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references).

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Synonym: Otc

Synonym: over-the-counter (adj). (additional references)
Synonyms by domain: Office of Technical Co-operation (engineering & technology), Offshore technology conference (mining), One-Stop Inclusive Tour Charter (transportation), Open-top chambers (computing), Organisation for trade cooperation (business), originating toll centre (post & telecom), over the counter (business, medicinefinance), Overseas Telecommunications Commission (post & telecom), over-the-counter (finance), Ozone Transport Commission (environment).

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Crosswords: Otc

English words defined with "otc": OTC market, OTC security, OTC stock. (references)
Specialty definitions using "otc": Nasdaq Stock Market, National Association of Securities Dealers, National Association of Securities Dealers Automatic Quotation, National Association of Securities Dealers Automatic Quotation SystemOTC derivative, OTC derivative instrument, OTC derivatives market, OTC medicines. (references)

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Commercial Usage: Otc

DomainTitle

References

  • The 2001 Report on OTC Healthcare Products: World Market Segmentation by City (reference)

  • The 2001 Long-Run Global Growth Prospects for OTC Healthcare Products: A Physioeconomic Perspective (reference)

  • The 2000-2005 Outlook for Otc Healthcare Products in Europe (reference)

  • The 2003-2008 World Outlook for Otc Healthcare (reference)

    (more reference examples)

  

Books

  • European OTC Internal Analgesic Markets: New Products Open Up Marketing Opportunities (reference)

  • MarketLooks: The U.S. Market for OTC Antacids [DOWNLOAD: PDF] (reference)

  • OTC cough and cold remedies in Japan [DOWNLOAD: PDF] (reference)

  • U.S. pain management markets : expiring patents promote OTC opportunities (reference)

    (more book examples)

  

Periodicals

  • Daily Graphs Nasdaq Otc American Stock Exchange - Bi-weekly (reference)

  • List Of Marginable Otc Stocks As Of (reference)

  • Chartcraft Weekly Ase Otc Breakout Service (reference)

  • Mansfield Stock Chart Service - New York Stock Exchange & Otc (reference)

  • Otc Point & Figure Update (reference)

    (more periodical examples)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Non-Fiction Usage: Otc

SubjectTopicQuote

Health

Each OTC product contains one of the following active ingredients. (references)

If using OTC pediculicides, retreat in 7-10 days. If using malathion, retreat in 7-10 days only if crawling bugs are found. (references)

However, misdiagnosis is common, and studies have shown that as many as two-thirds of all OTC drugs sold to treat VVC were used by women without the disease. (references)

Business

OTC products are frequently sold through drugstores, health and department stores. (references)

All pharmaceutical preparations, except for most OTC drugs, must be sold via pharmacies. (references)

There is an emerging OTC market which currently accounts for about 12% of the total amount spent on reagents. (references)

Economic History

Hungary

Of these, approximately 3,000 are OTC medications with no social security subsidy. (references)

Uk

Prescription drugs use rose by 3.3 percent in 2000, and the OTC market grew by 5 percent. (references)

Finland

The stamp duty on transactions conducted on the Stock Exchange and on the OTC market has been abolished. (references)

Political Economy

TAIWAN

Taiwan removed the foreign ownership limit on companies listed on the Taiwan Stock Exchange and OTC Market in late 2000, with a few exceptions for designated industries. (references)

Trade

Romania

Out of the 207 brokerage agencies licensed to operate on RASDAQ, 10 currently account for over 90 percent of the OTC transactions volume. (references)

Japan

Also, Ministry of Finance guidance to brokers to set tough standards for companies seeking to go public results in even the best companies taking up to a decade to get a listing on the over-the-counter stock market--less than 1000 over-the-counter stocks are listed on the 7-year-old JASDAQ, Japan's electronic OTC market. (references)

Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits.

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Usage Frequency: Otc

"Otc" is generally used as a noun (singular) -- approximately 67.06% of the time. "Otc" is used about 85 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted)
Parts of SpeechPercentUsage per
100 Million Words
Rank in English
Noun (singular)67.06%5744,859
Noun (proper)30.59%2668,323
Noun (common)2.35%2245,945
                    Total100.00%85N/A

Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.

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Expressions: Otc

Expressions using "otc": OTC derivative OTC derivative instrument OTC derivatives market OTC market OTC medicines OTC security otc stock. Additional references.

Hyphenated Usage

Beginning with "otc": otc-traded.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Frequency of Internet Keywords: Otc

The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com.
 
ExpressionFrequency
per Day
ExpressionFrequency
per Day

otc

719

journal otc

8

otc tool

161

active most otc

8

otc stock

108

otc genesis

8

otc bulletin board

88

otc wireless

8

otc bb

67

otc diet pill

7

otc prilosec

61

otc medication

6

alert otc stock

30

otc printer

6

otc drug

30

health manager otc pharmaceutical product

6

otc spx

27

national association of securities dealer automated quotation system otc

6

otc market

13

otc bb stock

6

otc genisys

12

otc trading

6

otc scanner

11

otc exchange

6

otc stock quote

11

otc stock exchange

5

board otc

10

otc insight

4

otc scan tool

10

otc 4000e

4

otc medicine

10

claritin otc

4

otc pink sheet

10

otc price stock

4

otc quote

9

otc power team

4

otc bulletin

9

company otc tool

4

otc product

8

otc monitor

4
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Modern Translations: Otc

Language Translations for "otc"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses.

Danish

  

over-the-counter-værdipapir (OTC security, over-the-counter security), OTC-værdipapir (OTC security, over-the-counter security), OTC-marked (curb market, junior stock market, OTC market, over-the-counter market, parallel market, parallel stock market, second tier market, third market, unlisted securities market), OTC-derivatmarked (OTC derivatives market), uofficiel børshandel (OTC market, over the counter market, unlisted securities market, unofficial market), sekundært marked (curb market, junior stock market, OTC market, over-the-counter market, parallel market, parallel stock market, second tier market, third market, unlisted securities market), sekundært børsmarked (curb market, junior stock market, OTC market, over-the-counter market, parallel market, parallel stock market, second tier market, third market, unlisted securities market), parallelmarked (curb market, junior stock market, OTC market, over-the-counter market, parallel market, parallel stock market, second tier market, third market, unlisted securities market), laegemiddel,der kan koebes i haandkoeb (medicinal product obtained without a medical prescription, OTC medicine, over-the-counter medicinal product), haandkoebslaegemiddel (medicinal product obtained without a medical prescription, OTC medicine, over-the-counter medicinal product), efterbørs (after hours market curb, after market, curb market, junior stock market, OTC market, over-the-counter market, parallel market, parallel stock market, second tier market, third market, unlisted securities market), afledt OTC-instrument (OTC derivative, OTC derivative instrument, over-the-counter derivative). (various references)

   

Dutch

  

OTC-produkt (OTC security, over-the-counter security), OTC-instrument (OTC derivative, OTC derivative instrument, over-the-counter derivative), OTC-derivatenoperatie (OTC derivative transaction, over-the-counter derivative transaction), zonder recept verkrijgbaar geneesmiddel (medicinal product obtained without a medical prescription, OTC medicine, over-the-counter medicinal product), vrij verkrijgbaar geneesmiddel (medicinal product obtained without a medical prescription, OTC medicine, over-the-counter medicinal product), tweede markt (curb market, junior stock market, OTC market, over-the-counter market, parallel market, parallel stock market, second tier market, third market, unlisted securities market), secondaire markt (curb market, junior stock market, OTC market, over-the-counter market, parallel market, parallel stock market, second tier market, third market, unlisted securities market), parallelmarkt (curb market, junior stock market, OTC market, over-the-counter market, parallel market, parallel stock market, second tier market, third market, unlisted securities market, unofficial market), niet genoteerde markt (curb market, junior stock market, OTC market, over-the-counter market, parallel market, parallel stock market, second tier market, third market, unlisted securities market), markt voor OTC-derivaten (OTC derivatives market), markt voor niet-genoteerde effecten (OTC market, over the counter market, unlisted securities market, unofficial market), markt van niet ter beurze genoteerde roerende waarden (curb market, junior stock market, OTC market, over-the-counter market, parallel market, parallel stock market, second tier market, third market, unlisted securities market), handel in niet-genoteerde fondsen (OTC market, over the counter market, unlisted securities market, unofficial market). (various references)

   

Finnish

  

OTC-markkinat (curb market, junior stock market, OTC market, over-the-counter market, parallel market, parallel stock market, second tier market, third market, unlisted securities market), OTC-kauppa (OTC market, over the counter market, over-the-counter deal, unlisted securities market, unofficial market), OTC-johdannaismarkkinat (OTC derivatives market), OTC-arvopaperi (OTC security, over-the-counter security), sopimusmarkkinat (curb market, junior stock market, OTC market, over the counter market, over-the-counter market, parallel market, parallel stock market, second tier market, third market, unlisted securities market, unofficial market). (various references)

   

French

  

opération de gré gré sur produits dérivés (OTC derivative transaction), transaction dérivée sur marché hors-cote (OTC derivative transaction), second marché (OTC market), marché hors cote (OTC market), marché hors bourse (OTC market), marché des produits dérivés négociés hors Bourse (OTC derivatives market), médicament grand public (OTC medicine), médicament en vente libre (OTC-drug), instrument hors bourse (OTC derivative, OTC derivative instrument), instrument dérivé du hors cote (OTC derivative, OTC derivative instrument), contrat d'option de gré gré (OTC option agreement). (various references)

   

German

  

Over-the-Counter-Wertpapier (OTC security, over-the-counter security), OTC-Wertpapier (OTC security, over-the-counter security), OTC-Präparat (medicinal product obtained without a medical prescription, OTC medicine, over-the-counter medicinal product), Optionsvereinbarung im Freiverkehrsmarkt (OTC option agreement, over-the-counter option agreement), vom Freiverkehrsmarkt abgeleitetes Instrument (OTC derivative, OTC derivative instrument, over-the-counter derivative), Parallelmarkt (curb market, junior stock market, OTC market, over-the-counter market, parallel market, parallel stock market, second tier market, third market, unlisted securities market), Handverkaufsarzneimittel (medicinal product obtained without a medical prescription, OTC medicine, over-the-counter medicinal product), geregelter Markt (commercial market, curb market, junior stock market, official market, OTC market, over-the-counter market, parallel market, parallel stock market, regulated market, second tier market, third market, unlisted securities market), geregelter Freiverkehr (OTC market, over the counter market, unlisted securities market, unofficial market), Freiverkehrmarkt (curb market, junior stock market, OTC market, over-the-counter market, parallel market, parallel stock market, second tier market, third market, unlisted securities market), Freiverkehr mit Derivaten (OTC derivative transaction, over-the-counter derivative transaction), Freiverkehr (OTC market, over the counter market, unlisted securities market, unofficial market), frei verkäufliches Arzneimittel (medicinal product obtained without a medical prescription, OTC medicine, over-the-counter medicinal product), börsenfreie Derivativmärkte (OTC derivatives market), Arzneimittel,das ohne ärztliche Verschreibung erhältlich ist (medicinal product obtained without a medical prescription, OTC medicine, over-the-counter medicinal product). (various references)

   

Greek 

  

μέσα εκτός επισήμων χρηματιστηριακών αγορών (OTC derivative, OTC derivative instrument, over-the-counter derivative), παράλληλη αγορά (curb market, junior stock market, OTC market, over the counter market, over-the-counter market, parallel market, parallel stock market, second tier market, third market, unlisted securities market, unofficial market), φαρμακευτικό προϊόν ελεύθερης πώλησης (medicinal product obtained without a medical prescription, OTC medicine, over-the-counter medicinal product), εξωχρηματιστηριακή αγορά παράγωγων προϊόντων (OTC derivatives market), εξωχρηματιστηριακή αγορά (OTC market, over the counter market, unlisted securities market, unofficial market). (various references)

   

Hungarian

  

egy leszállásos it különjárat (one-stop inclusive tour charter). (various references)

   

Italian

  

operazione in strumenti derivati negoziati al di fuori dei mercati regolamentari (OTC derivative transaction, over-the-counter derivative transaction), mercato over-the-counter (OTC market, over the counter market, unlisted securities market, unofficial market), medicinale di autoprescrizione (medicinal product obtained without a medical prescription, OTC medicine, over-the-counter medicinal product), medicinale distribuito senza ricetta medica (medicinal product obtained without a medical prescription, OTC medicine, over-the-counter medicinal product), mercatino (flea market), mercato borsistico secondario (curb market, junior stock market, OTC market, over-the-counter market, parallel market, parallel stock market, second tier market, third market, unlisted securities market), mercato dei derivati OTC (OTC derivatives market), borsino (OTC market, over the counter market, unlisted securities market, unofficial market), mercato fuori-borsa (OTC market, over the counter market, unlisted securities market, unofficial market), titolo over the counter (OTC security, over-the-counter security), mercato parallelo (curb market, junior stock market, OTC market, over-the-counter market, parallel market, parallel stock market, second tier market, third market, unlisted securities market), mercato ristretto (curb market, junior stock market, OTC market, over the counter market, over-the-counter market, parallel market, parallel stock market, second tier market, third market, unlisted securities market, unofficial market), mercato secondario (curb market, junior stock market, OTC market, over-the-counter market, parallel market, parallel stock market, second tier market, third market, unlisted securities market), strumento derivato fuori borsa (OTC derivative, OTC derivative instrument, over-the-counter derivative), titolo OTC (OTC security, over-the-counter security), mercato dei titoli non quotati in borsa (curb market, junior stock market, OTC market, over-the-counter market, parallel market, parallel stock market, second tier market, third market, unlisted securities market). (various references)

   

Pig Latin

  

otcay

   

Portuguese

  

mercado paralelo (OTC market, over the counter market, unlisted securities market, unofficial market), mercado não oficial (curb market, junior stock market, OTC market, over-the-counter market, parallel market, parallel stock market, second tier market, third market, unlisted securities market), mercado livre regulamentado (OTC market, over the counter market, unlisted securities market, unofficial market), mercado fora da Bolsa (OTC market, over the counter market, unlisted securities market, unofficial market), mercado de balcão para os instrumentos derivados (OTC derivatives market), mercado da bolsa secundário (curb market, junior stock market, OTC market, over-the-counter market, parallel market, parallel stock market, second tier market, third market, unlisted securities market), instrumento derivado dos OTC (OTC derivative, OTC derivative instrument, over-the-counter derivative). (various references)

   

Spanish

  

cuerpos de cadetes militares. (various references)

   

Swedish

  

OTC-marknaden (OTC market, over the counter market, unlisted securities market, unofficial market), sidomarknad (curb market, junior stock market, OTC market, over-the-counter market, parallel market, parallel stock market, second tier market, third market, unlisted securities market), sekundär marknadsplats (curb market, junior stock market, OTC market, over-the-counter market, parallel market, parallel stock market, second tier market, third market, unlisted securities market), parallellmarknad (curb market, junior stock market, OTC market, over-the-counter market, parallel market, parallel stock market, second tier market, third market, unlisted securities market), marknad i onoterade värdepapper (OTC market, over the counter market, unlisted securities market, unofficial market), marknad för icke börsnoterade derivatinstrument (OTC derivatives market), inofficiell börs (OTC market, over the counter market, unlisted securities market, unofficial market). (various references)

Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

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Derivations: Otc

Derivations

Words containing "otc": abbotcies, abbotcy, birrotch, blotch, blotched, blotches, blotchier, blotchiest, blotchily, blotching, blotchy, botch, botched, botcher, botcheries, botchers, botchery, botches, botchier, botchiest, botchily, botching, botchy, butterscotch, butterscotches, crotch, crotched, crotches, crotchet, crotchetiness, crotchetinesses, crotchets, crotchety, footcloth, footcloths, hootch, hootches, hopscotch, hopscotched, hopscotches, hopscotching, hotcake, hotcakes, hotch, hotched, hotches, hotching, hotchpot, hotchpotch, hotchpotches, hotchpots. (additional references)

Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references).

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Anagrams: Otc

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Direct Anagrams: cot.

Words within the letters "c-o-t"

-1 letter: to.

 Words containing the letters "c-o-t"
 

+1 letter: clot, coat, coft, colt, coot, cost, cote, cots, otic, scot, taco, torc.

 

+2 letters: actor, ascot, botch, canto, cento, chott, cloot, cloth, clots, clout, coact, coapt, coast, coati, coats, colts, comet, compt, comte, conte, conto, coopt, coots, coset, costa, costs, cotan, coted, cotes, cotta, count, court, couth, covet, croft, cyton, dicot, escot, hotch, lotic, notch, octad, octal, octan, octet, octyl, ontic, optic, picot, recto, rotch, scoot, scots, scout, stock, stoic, tacos, taroc, tonic, topic, torch, torcs, toric, touch, toxic, trock.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Alternative Orthography: Otc


Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)

4F 74 63

Leonardo da Vinci (1452-1519; backwards) (references)

American Sign Language (origins from 1620-1817 in Italy and, especially, France) (references)

=

Semaphore (1791, in France) (references)

Braille (1829, in France) (references)

Morse Code (1836) (references)

---    -    -.-.

Dancing Men (Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, 1903) (references)

Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)

01001111 01110100 01100011

HTML Code (1990) (references)

&#79 &#116 &#99

ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)

004F 0074 0063

British Sign Language (Fingerspelling, BSL; 1992, British Deaf Association Dictionary of British Sign Language) (references)

Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)

498669

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Non-English Dictionaries with "Otc"

LanguageCoverageLanguage Translations

Danish

ordbog, deskriptordefinition, oversættelsetanskalainen, danois, dänisch, δανικόσ, δανόσ, dán, danese, dinamarquês, danés, dansk

Dutch

woordenboek, definitie, translatiehollandsk, hollantilainen, néerlandais, holländisch, ολλανδικόσ, ολλανδόσ, holland, olandese, holandês, holandés, holländsk

Finnish

määritelmä, translaatio, taajuusmuutossuomi, suomalainen, finnois, Finlandaise, finlandais, finnisch, φινλανδικόσ, finn, finlandese, finlandês, finês, finlandés, finés, finsk

French

dictionnaire, définition, traductionranskalainen, français, französisch, γαλλικόσ, γαλλική γλώσσα, γαλλίδα, γάλλοσ, francia, francese, francês, francés, fransk, franska

German

wörterbuch, Übersetzungtysker, Duitse, saksalainen, allemand, deutsch, Deutsche, "ερμανός, német, tedesco, alemão, alemán, tysk

Greek

λεξικό, ορισμός, μετάφρασηgræker, kreikkalainen, grec, grieche, ελληνικόσ, 'Ελληνας, görög, greco, grego, griego, grek

Hungarian

szótár, meghatározás, definíció, fordításungarer, Hongaarse, unkarilainen, hongrois, Ungar, Ούγγρος, magyar, ungherese, húngaro, ungrare

Italian

dizionario, definizione, traduzioneitaliener, italialainen, italien, italienisch, Ιταλός, olasz, italiano, italiensk, italienska, italienare

Portuguese

dicionário, definição, traduçãoportugiser, portugalilainen, portugais, portugiesisch, πορτογάλοσ, ορτογάλος, portugál, portoghese, português, portugués, portugis

Spanish

diccionario, definición, traducciónSpaans, espanjalainen, espagnol, spanisch, ισπανικά, ισπανικόσ, ισπανοί, spanyol, spagnolo, espanhol, español, spanska språk, spansk

Swedish

ordbok, lexikon, definition, översättningZweeds, ruotsalainen, suédois, schwedisch, σουηδικόσ, σουηδικά, svéd, svedese, sueco, svensk

English

Dictionary, Definition, Translationenglantia, englantilainen, anglais, englisch, εγγλέζοσ, αγγλικόσ, angol, inglese, inglês, inglés, engelsk
 


INDEX

1. Definition
2. Synonyms
3. Crosswords
4. Usage: Commercial
5. Quotations: Non-fiction
6. Usage Frequency
7. Expressions
8. Expressions: Internet
9. Translations: Modern
10. Abbreviations
11. Acronyms
12. Derivations
13. Anagrams
14. Orthography
15. Bibliography


  

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