odd-lot
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.
From Time Magazine Archive
And they are not investing in cheap stocks: the average stock bought in an odd lot now costs $52 v.
From Time Magazine Archive
His allies, in the nature of things, are 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.
From Time Magazine Archive
They are an odd lot, and I think there are but two—the two last—that I am not a little ashamed of reprinting.
From Pot-Boilers by Bell, Clive
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