OTC

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Pronunciation

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Adjective

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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

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OTC (uncountable)

  1. (pathology) Initialism of Ornithine transcarbamylase deficiency.

Proper noun

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OTC

  1. (military) Initialism of Officers Training Corps (part of the British Army)
  2. Initialism of Overseas Telecommunications Commission (defunct department of the Australian government)

Prepositional phrase

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OTC

  1. (slang, Internet, text messaging) Initialism of on the cheek.

Anagrams

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