odd-lot
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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
In recent years, individual sales in odd lots have equaled or outnumbered sales of 100 shares, while odd lot sales constitute an additional third to the published total of 100-share sales.
From Time Magazine Archive
This time the family whose strangely assorted Linen hangs out to dry is an odd lot of small-town Virginians.
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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.
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But I 'ave my orders to fetch the odd lot to Constantinople an' fetch 'em I will.
From The Vagrant Duke by Gibbs, George
