OTC
English
Pronunciation
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Adjective
OTC
- Initialism of over-the-counter.
- 1996, David Foster Wallace, Infinite Jest […], Boston, Mass.; New York, N.Y.: Little, Brown and Company, →ISBN, page 60:
- The bedside table is littered with both OTC and prescription expectorants and pertussives and analgesics and Vitamin-C megaspansules […]
- 2014 April, Ken Seufert, “The New Dawn of Pharmaceutical Manufacturing: Innovative Solutions for Unprecedented Challenges”, in American Pharmaceutical Review, 17(3):8:
- By adopting complementary products used in biotech, over-the-counter (OTC), nutritional, cosmetic, or other fine chemical consumers, their cost basis is further diluted to help maintain competitiveness.
- Initialism of order-to-cash.
- (slang) Initialism of off the charts.
Noun
OTC (uncountable)
- (pathology) Initialism of Ornithine transcarbamylase deficiency.
- (military) Initialism of Officer in tactical command (in NATO)
Proper noun
OTC
- (organization) Initialism of Offshore Technology Conference
- (military) Initialism of Officers Training Corps (part of the British Army).
- (Australia, historical) Initialism of Overseas Telecommunications Commission, a defunct department of the Australian government.
- (Philippines) Initialism of Office of Transportation Cooperatives.
Prepositional phrase
OTC
- (slang, Internet, text messaging) Initialism of on the cheek.
Anagrams
Japanese
Etymology
Borrowed from English OTC (“over-the-counter”)
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): [o̞ːtʲiːɕiː]
Noun
OTC • (ōtīshī)
- over-the-counter
- Synonym: 店頭 (tentō)
Derived terms
- (drugs): OTC 医薬品 (ōtīshī iyakuhin), OTC 類似薬 (ōtīshī ruijiyaku), スイッチ OTC 薬 (suitchi ōtīshī yaku)
- (finance): OTC 取引 (ōtīshī torihiki), OTC 市場 (ōtīshī shijō)