over-the-counter market

1. 1.

   a stock exchange where securities transactions are made via telephone and computer rather than on the floor of an exchange

   SynonymsOTC market

   Broaderstock exchange

Questions about over-the-counter market

What does over-the-counter market mean?

over-the-counter market means "a stock exchange where securities transactions are made via telephone and computer rather than on the floor of an exchange".

What is another word for over-the-counter market?

Close synonyms include OTC market. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is over-the-counter market a common word?

over-the-counter market is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.