OTC

OTC

English

Pronunciation

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Adjective

OTC

  1. 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.
  2. Initialism of order-to-cash.
  3. (slang) Initialism of off the charts.

Noun

OTC (uncountable)

  1. (pathology) Initialism of Ornithine transcarbamylase deficiency.
  2. (military) Initialism of Officer in tactical command (in NATO)

Proper noun

OTC

  1. (organization) Initialism of Offshore Technology Conference
  2. (military) Initialism of Officers Training Corps (part of the British Army).
  3. (Australia, historical) Initialism of Overseas Telecommunications Commission, a defunct department of the Australian government.
  4. (Philippines) Initialism of Office of Transportation Cooperatives.

Prepositional phrase

OTC

  1. (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(オーティーシー) • (ōtīshī

  1. over-the-counter
    Synonym: 店頭 (tentō)
    1. (medicine, pharmacy, drugs) Over-the-counter drugs
      OTC(オーティーシー) ()(やく)(ひん)
      ōtīshī iyakuhin
      over-the-counter drags
      OTC(オーティーシー) (るい)()(やく)
      ōtīshī ruiji yaku
      OTC Drug-Like Medicines
    2. (finance) Over-the-counter (finance)
      Synonym: 店頭取引 (tentō torihiki)
      OTC(オーティーシー) (とり)(ひき)
      ōtīshī torihiki
      OTC trading
      OTC(オーティーシー) ()(じょう)
      ōtīshī shijō
      over-the-counter market

Derived terms

  • (drugs): OTC(オーティーシー) ()(やく)(ひん) (ōtīshī iyakuhin), OTC(オーティーシー) (るい)()(やく) (ōtīshī ruijiyaku), スイッチ OTC(オーティーシー) (やく) (suitchi ōtīshī yaku)
  • (finance): OTC(オーティーシー) (とり)(ひき) (ōtīshī torihiki), OTC(オーティーシー) ()(じょう) (ōtīshī shijō)