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odd lot|ˈɒd lɒt|
[f. odd a. + lot n.]
1. An incomplete set or random mixture (of articles of commerce).
1897Sears, Roebuck Catal. 173/1 The pants are not the size to fit the coats and vests. We then throw them into what we call our ‘Odd Lots’, or mixed suits. 1931C. Maughan Markets of London 105 Parcels of five bags or less are known as ‘odd lots’ and are sold separately at the end of the auctions, with the exception of pea-berries, which are sold irrespective of the size of the lots.
2. U.S. Stock Exchange. Used attrib. of transactions involving numbers of shares smaller than is normally dealt in. Hence odd-lotter.
1929Times 1 Nov. 22/5 The list generally moved up under heavy accumulation of standard issues, together with reports of a tremendous volume of odd-lot bargain buying. 1939C. O. Hardy (title) Odd-lot trading on the New York Stock Exchange. 1968Economist 28 May 94/1 The unit trust investor is not quite an odd-lotter—the American term for a small investor. 1970Washington Post 30 Sept. D. 10/3 Odd lot transactions by principal dealers. 1976National Observer (U.S.) 28 Feb. 8/4 But odd-lot figures..suggest that small investors were, on balance, selling in November and December of 1972 and in January of 1973. Ibid., There is some statistical evidence that odd-lotters have been wrong far too often in the past. |