odd-lot
Example Sentences
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This figure, however, does not include numerous "odd lot" transactions in from 1 to 99 shares, which contribute about a third again as many shares sold.
From Time Magazine Archive
The five cars on the odyssey made an odd lot.
From Time Magazine Archive
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
Last month, while Dr. Gallup was on vacation, his staff at Princeton, N.J. drew up an odd lot of questions designed to give some kind of picture of Homo americanus.
From Time Magazine Archive
"They must be an odd lot," Mrs. Field Mouse remarked to her husband.
From The Tale of Buster Bumblebee by Smith, Harry L.
