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Definition: Otc |
OtcAdjective1. (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. |
| 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. | |||
| Entry | Source | Expression | Field |
OTC | Danish | Uden for Børsen | Finance |
OTC | Dutch | OTC-geneesmiddelen | N/A |
OTC | English | Open-top chambers | N/A |
Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |||
Synonym: OtcSynonym: 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). |
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 System ♦ OTC derivative, OTC derivative instrument, OTC derivatives market, OTC medicines. (references) |
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| Subject | Topic | Quote |
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. | ||
| "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 Speech | Percent | Usage per 100 Million Words | Rank in English |
| Noun (singular) | 67.06% | 57 | 44,859 |
| Noun (proper) | 30.59% | 26 | 68,323 |
| Noun (common) | 2.35% | 2 | 245,945 |
| Total | 100.00% | 85 | N/A |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
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. | |
| 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. |
| Expression | Frequency per Day | Expression | Frequency 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. | |||
| 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 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) cuerpos de cadetes militares. (various references) 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) | ||||||||||||||||||||||
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). | |
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. SCRABBLE® is a registered trademark. All intellectual property rights in and to the game are owned in the U.S.A and Canada by Hasbro Inc., and throughout the rest of the world by J.W. Spear & Sons Limited of Maidenhead, Berkshire, England, a subsidiary of Mattel Inc. Mattel and Spear are not affiliated with Hasbro. | |
Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)4F 74 63 |
| Leonardo da Vinci (1452-1519; backwards) (references)
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| American Sign Language (origins from 1620-1817 in Italy and, especially, France) (references)
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| Semaphore (1791, in France) (references)
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| Braille (1829, in France) (references)
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Morse Code (1836) (references)--- - -.-. |
| Dancing Men (Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, 1903) (references)
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Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)01001111 01110100 01100011 |
HTML Code (1990) (references)O t c |
ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)004F 0074 0063 |
| British Sign Language (Fingerspelling, BSL; 1992, British Deaf Association Dictionary of British Sign Language) (references)
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Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)498669 |
| Language | Coverage | Language Translations |
Danish | ordbog, deskriptordefinition, oversættelse | tanskalainen, danois, dänisch, δανικόσ, δανόσ, dán, danese, dinamarquês, danés, dansk |
Dutch | woordenboek, definitie, translatie | hollandsk, hollantilainen, néerlandais, holländisch, ολλανδικόσ, ολλανδόσ, holland, olandese, holandês, holandés, holländsk |
Finnish | määritelmä, translaatio, taajuusmuutos | suomi, suomalainen, finnois, Finlandaise, finlandais, finnisch, φινλανδικόσ, finn, finlandese, finlandês, finês, finlandés, finés, finsk |
French | dictionnaire, définition, traduction | ranskalainen, français, französisch, γαλλικόσ, γαλλική γλώσσα, γαλλίδα, γάλλοσ, francia, francese, francês, francés, fransk, franska |
German | wörterbuch, Übersetzung | tysker, Duitse, saksalainen, allemand, deutsch, Deutsche, "ερμανός, német, tedesco, alemão, alemán, tysk |
Greek | λεξικό, ορισμός, μετάφραση | græker, kreikkalainen, grec, grieche, ελληνικόσ, 'Ελληνας, görög, greco, grego, griego, grek |
Hungarian | szótár, meghatározás, definíció, fordítás | ungarer, Hongaarse, unkarilainen, hongrois, Ungar, Ούγγρος, magyar, ungherese, húngaro, ungrare |
Italian | dizionario, definizione, traduzione | italiener, italialainen, italien, italienisch, Ιταλός, olasz, italiano, italiensk, italienska, italienare |
Portuguese | dicionário, definição, tradução | portugiser, portugalilainen, portugais, portugiesisch, πορτογάλοσ, ορτογάλος, portugál, portoghese, português, portugués, portugis |
Spanish | diccionario, definición, traducción | Spaans, espanjalainen, espagnol, spanisch, ισπανικά, ισπανικόσ, ισπανοί, spanyol, spagnolo, espanhol, español, spanska språk, spansk |
Swedish | ordbok, lexikon, definition, översättning | Zweeds, ruotsalainen, suédois, schwedisch, σουηδικόσ, σουηδικά, svéd, svedese, sueco, svensk |
English | Dictionary, Definition, Translation | englantia, englantilainen, anglais, englisch, εγγλέζοσ, αγγλικόσ, angol, inglese, inglês, inglés, engelsk |
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