over the counteradv.adj.

Brit.

/ˌəʊvəðəˈkaʊntə/, U.S.

/ˈˌoʊvərðəˈkaʊn(t)ər/

Origin: Formed within English, by compounding. Etymons: over prep., the adj., counter n.³

Etymology: < over prep. + the adj. + counter n.³

A. adv.

a. Across the counter of a bank, shop, etc. (see counter n.³ 4). Hence (with reference to the buying or selling of goods or services): directly between a buyer and seller; by ordinary retail purchase or trading.

ΚΠ

1864 A. Trollope Can you forgive Her? I. xii. 96 They can take four or five pounds a day over the counter for their rot-gut stuff at the ‘Cadogan Arms’, and I can't do no better.

1875 W. S. Jevons Money (1878) 252 Pay it back over the counter to the credit of his account with the same banker.

1897 B. Stoker Dracula xx. 280 The purchaser..effected the purchase himself paying the purchase money in notes ‘over the counter,’ if your Lordship will pardon us using so vulgar an expression.

1924 Times 16 July 14/5 In February last..bakers advanced the price of bread sold over the counter in London from 8d. to 8½d. per quartern loaf.

1954 Househ. Guide & Almanac (News of World) 302/1 at Crossed Cheques The effect of crossing cheques is that the possessor cannot obtain payment over the counter, but must pay the cheque into a bank for collection.

2002 Counterterrorism & Security Rep. (Nexis) Nov.–Dec. Normally a bomber does not want to mail a parcel over the counter and have to deal face-to-face with a window clerk.

b. Finance (originally North American). With reference to the selling of stocks and shares: by direct transaction between a buyer and seller or their brokers; outside the system of a recognized stock exchange.

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society > trade and finance > stocks and shares > [adverb] > type of transaction

in the street1895

for new time1902

over the counter1921

society > trade and finance > other trading methods > [adverb] > directly or legitimately

over the counter1965

over the counter1976

1921 Mag. Wall St. 10 Dec. 179/2 There is another field which readers have expressed the desire to see us cover. That is the great field comprising unlisted securities, which are dealt in over-the-counter... In response to this demand, we are inaugurating, beginning with this issue, a new department to appear under the caption, ‘Over-the-Counter’.

1965 McGraw-Hill Dict. Mod. Econ. 367 In addition to common and preferred stocks, almost all U.S. government securities and municipal and corporate bonds are traded over the counter.

2002 Bloomsberg News (Nexis) 9 July Price transparency in bonds is more difficult because the securities are often traded over-the-counter between traders and customers.

c. With reference to the obtaining of a pharmaceutical product: without a doctor's prescription.

ΚΠ

1977 Washington Post (Nexis) 29 Aug. a8 He personally feels saccharin should be made available over the counter to people who feel they need it.

1989 S. H. Schneider Global Warming (1990) viii. 254 Effective ultraviolet-blocking chemicals available over the counter can be applied to the skin.

2002 Entertainm. Weekly (Nexis) 1 Nov. 52 The shiny blue pills he has concocted promise the user a wilder buzz than cocaine or heroin, yet they're forged entirely out of substances that can be bought over the counter.

2. figurative. With reference to the conduct of any purchase or transaction: openly, legitimately (cf. under the counter at counter n.³ 4b).

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society > trade and finance > other trading methods > [adverb] > directly or legitimately

over the counter1965

over the counter1976

1976 Economist (Nexis) 13 Nov. 132 An ingenious array of perks and special payments have been added over and under the counter.

1989 St. Petersburg (Florida) Times (Nexis) 29 Oct. 3 d Only 12 percent of the assault weapons seized in 1988 were obtained illegally; the others were bought legally over the counter.

1998 Scotsman (Nexis) 13 Aug. 10 There are nine bars and probably another dozen or so places to buy liquor over- or under- the counter.

B. adj. (attributive). Usually with hyphens.

a. Of a commercial (esp. retail) transaction: conducted directly between a buyer and seller, esp. across a counter. Also: of, relating to, or designating such transactions.

ΚΠ

1897 C. King in Humanitarian 10 232 It seems to make marriage an over-the-counter affair.

1944 Amer. Notes & Queries July 64/1 A North Carolinian illustration of this futile neologistic tendency found in high places is ‘over-the-counter salesperson’, for the simple..clerk.

1958 Spectator 11 July 58/3 The over-the-counter service of spit-roasted chicken is a development in the catering trade.

1974 Guardian 22 Mar. 11/5 The retailers wanted to simplify the collection of air fuel surcharges on package holidays by including the sum on the over-the-counter invoice presented to the customer.

2002 Express (Nexis) 9 Oct. (Features) 39 Most bank and building society customers want over-the-counter services, research consistently tells us.

b. Finance (originally North American). Of stocks, shares, etc.: traded directly between a buyer and seller or their broker; traded outside the system of a regular stock exchange. Also: of, relating to, or designating such a transaction.

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society > trade and finance > stocks and shares > [adjective] > specific operations or arrangements

short1849

marginal1870

odd lot1870

share pushing1896

new-time1897

stop-loss1901

over the counter1921

physical1946

OTC1965

index-linked1970

bed and breakfast1974

mark-to-market1981

1921 Mag. Wall St. 10 Dec. 179/2 It will be our effort to confine our analysis of over-the-counter stocks to as brief a space as possible.

1929 H. P. B. Willis & J. I. Bogen Investm. Banking iii. 50 This market is referred to as the unlisted or over-the-counter market, because business is transacted..‘over the counter’ of the individual broker or dealer, rather than at..an exchange.

1957 D. T. Clark & B. A. Gottfried Dict. Business & Finance 253/2 The securities are traded on a face-to-face, or over-the-counter basis. In the actual operation of over-the-counter trading, a trader who specializes in a particular security arranges for all transactions, either by bringing buyers and sellers together, or by buying and selling the security for his own account.

1972 Times 16 May (Wall Street Suppl.) p. iv/7 For 25 years he was a broker and then from 1964 to 1967 headed the National Association of Securities Dealers which regulates over-the-counter deals.

2002 Korean Herald (Nexis) 18 Oct. Over-the-counter shares fared even worse as the Kosdaq market fell 50 percent.

c. Of a pharmaceutical product: obtainable without a doctor's prescription.

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the world > health and disease > healing > medicines or physic > [adjective] > available without prescription

over the counter1967

1967 Canad. Med. Assoc. Jrnl. 97 548/2 Prescribed medicines were most commonly used, but aspirin and other over-the-counter drugs were used in 29%.

1977 Addictive Dis. 3 275 Almost all the conditions and diseases that over-the-counter drugs of the past century were purported to relieve are still prevalent today.

1997 Bangkok Post 26 Feb. (Outlook section) 8/2 Young Bangladeshis and Thais experiment with designer drugs like Ecstasy and more basic over-the-counter opiates.

This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, December 2004; most recently modified version published online March 2022).

a. A banker's or money-changer's table; also, the table in a shop on which the money paid by purchasers is counted out, and across which goods are delivered. The tradesman stands behind the counter; goods are sold and money paid over the counter.In modern times the shop-counter is also used for the display of goods, but this is not implied in the name.

ΘΚΠ

society > trade and finance > trading place > place where retail transactions made > [noun] > shop > shop-fittings > counter

show-board1453

shop board1516

counter1688

bar1954

society > trade and finance > financial dealings > types of money-dealing > [noun] > money-changing > money changer's establishment > table or counter

bank1567

counter1688

society > trade and finance > financial dealings > banking > [noun] > bank > counter

bench1755

bank counter1815

counter1875

α.

1688 R. Holme Acad. Armory iii. 259/1 He [is]..behind a Counter or Counting Table.

1701 D. Defoe True-born Englishman i. 25 Fate has but very small Distinction set Betwixt the Counter and the Coronet.

1712 J. Arbuthnot Law is Bottomless-pit ii. 6 Sometimes you would see him behind his Counter selling Broad Cloth.

1855 T. B. Macaulay Hist. Eng. III. 215 [He] might walk into a shop, lay on the counter a bit of brass worth threepence, and carry off goods to the value of half a guinea.

1875 W. S. Jevons Money (1878) 252 Pay it back over the counter to the credit of his account with the same banker.

1889 Times (Weekly ed.) 31 May 7/4 In fair days he would take some £40 over the counter.

β. 1699 S. Garth Dispensary iii. 30 Then from the Compter he takes down the File.1731 H. Fielding Letter-writers ii. ii. 22 Do you sit behind a Desk, or stand behind a Compter?1798 Anti-Jacobin 7 May 205/1 Each spruce Nymph, from City Compters free.1826 M. R. Mitford Our Village II. 293 Mrs. Bennet, milliner..marshalled a compter full of caps and bonnets at one side of the shop.

单词	over the counter
释义	over the counteradv.adj. Brit. /ˌəʊvəðəˈkaʊntə/, U.S. /ˈˌoʊvərðəˈkaʊn(t)ər/ Origin: Formed within English, by compounding. Etymons: over prep., the adj., counter n.³ Etymology: < over prep. + the adj. + counter n.³ A. adv. 1. a. Across the counter of a bank, shop, etc. (see counter n.³ 4). Hence (with reference to the buying or selling of goods or services): directly between a buyer and seller; by ordinary retail purchase or trading. ΚΠ 1864 A. Trollope Can you forgive Her? I. xii. 96 They can take four or five pounds a day over the counter for their rot-gut stuff at the ‘Cadogan Arms’, and I can't do no better. 1875 W. S. Jevons Money (1878) 252 Pay it back over the counter to the credit of his account with the same banker. 1897 B. Stoker Dracula xx. 280 The purchaser..effected the purchase himself paying the purchase money in notes ‘over the counter,’ if your Lordship will pardon us using so vulgar an expression. 1924 Times 16 July 14/5 In February last..bakers advanced the price of bread sold over the counter in London from 8d. to 8½d. per quartern loaf. 1954 Househ. Guide & Almanac (News of World) 302/1 at Crossed Cheques The effect of crossing cheques is that the possessor cannot obtain payment over the counter, but must pay the cheque into a bank for collection. 2002 Counterterrorism & Security Rep. (Nexis) Nov.–Dec. Normally a bomber does not want to mail a parcel over the counter and have to deal face-to-face with a window clerk. b. Finance (originally North American). With reference to the selling of stocks and shares: by direct transaction between a buyer and seller or their brokers; outside the system of a recognized stock exchange. ΘΚΠ society > trade and finance > stocks and shares > [adverb] > type of transaction in the street1895 for new time1902 over the counter1921 society > trade and finance > other trading methods > [adverb] > directly or legitimately over the counter1965 over the counter1976 1921 Mag. Wall St. 10 Dec. 179/2 There is another field which readers have expressed the desire to see us cover. That is the great field comprising unlisted securities, which are dealt in over-the-counter... In response to this demand, we are inaugurating, beginning with this issue, a new department to appear under the caption, ‘Over-the-Counter’. 1965 McGraw-Hill Dict. Mod. Econ. 367 In addition to common and preferred stocks, almost all U.S. government securities and municipal and corporate bonds are traded over the counter. 2002 Bloomsberg News (Nexis) 9 July Price transparency in bonds is more difficult because the securities are often traded over-the-counter between traders and customers. c. With reference to the obtaining of a pharmaceutical product: without a doctor's prescription. ΚΠ 1977 Washington Post (Nexis) 29 Aug. a8 He personally feels saccharin should be made available over the counter to people who feel they need it. 1989 S. H. Schneider Global Warming (1990) viii. 254 Effective ultraviolet-blocking chemicals available over the counter can be applied to the skin. 2002 Entertainm. Weekly (Nexis) 1 Nov. 52 The shiny blue pills he has concocted promise the user a wilder buzz than cocaine or heroin, yet they're forged entirely out of substances that can be bought over the counter. 2. figurative. With reference to the conduct of any purchase or transaction: openly, legitimately (cf. under the counter at counter n.³ 4b). ΘΚΠ society > trade and finance > other trading methods > [adverb] > directly or legitimately over the counter1965 over the counter1976 1976 Economist (Nexis) 13 Nov. 132 An ingenious array of perks and special payments have been added over and under the counter. 1989 St. Petersburg (Florida) Times (Nexis) 29 Oct. 3 d Only 12 percent of the assault weapons seized in 1988 were obtained illegally; the others were bought legally over the counter. 1998 Scotsman (Nexis) 13 Aug. 10 There are nine bars and probably another dozen or so places to buy liquor over- or under- the counter. B. adj. (attributive). Usually with hyphens. a. Of a commercial (esp. retail) transaction: conducted directly between a buyer and seller, esp. across a counter. Also: of, relating to, or designating such transactions. ΚΠ 1897 C. King in Humanitarian 10 232 It seems to make marriage an over-the-counter affair. 1944 Amer. Notes & Queries July 64/1 A North Carolinian illustration of this futile neologistic tendency found in high places is ‘over-the-counter salesperson’, for the simple..clerk. 1958 Spectator 11 July 58/3 The over-the-counter service of spit-roasted chicken is a development in the catering trade. 1974 Guardian 22 Mar. 11/5 The retailers wanted to simplify the collection of air fuel surcharges on package holidays by including the sum on the over-the-counter invoice presented to the customer. 2002 Express (Nexis) 9 Oct. (Features) 39 Most bank and building society customers want over-the-counter services, research consistently tells us. b. Finance (originally North American). Of stocks, shares, etc.: traded directly between a buyer and seller or their broker; traded outside the system of a regular stock exchange. Also: of, relating to, or designating such a transaction. ΘΚΠ society > trade and finance > stocks and shares > [adjective] > specific operations or arrangements short1849 marginal1870 odd lot1870 share pushing1896 new-time1897 stop-loss1901 over the counter1921 physical1946 OTC1965 index-linked1970 bed and breakfast1974 mark-to-market1981 1921 Mag. Wall St. 10 Dec. 179/2 It will be our effort to confine our analysis of over-the-counter stocks to as brief a space as possible. 1929 H. P. B. Willis & J. I. Bogen Investm. Banking iii. 50 This market is referred to as the unlisted or over-the-counter market, because business is transacted..‘over the counter’ of the individual broker or dealer, rather than at..an exchange. 1957 D. T. Clark & B. A. Gottfried Dict. Business & Finance 253/2 The securities are traded on a face-to-face, or over-the-counter basis. In the actual operation of over-the-counter trading, a trader who specializes in a particular security arranges for all transactions, either by bringing buyers and sellers together, or by buying and selling the security for his own account. 1972 Times 16 May (Wall Street Suppl.) p. iv/7 For 25 years he was a broker and then from 1964 to 1967 headed the National Association of Securities Dealers which regulates over-the-counter deals. 2002 Korean Herald (Nexis) 18 Oct. Over-the-counter shares fared even worse as the Kosdaq market fell 50 percent. c. Of a pharmaceutical product: obtainable without a doctor's prescription. ΘΚΠ the world > health and disease > healing > medicines or physic > [adjective] > available without prescription over the counter1967 1967 Canad. Med. Assoc. Jrnl. 97 548/2 Prescribed medicines were most commonly used, but aspirin and other over-the-counter drugs were used in 29%. 1977 Addictive Dis. 3 275 Almost all the conditions and diseases that over-the-counter drugs of the past century were purported to relieve are still prevalent today. 1997 Bangkok Post 26 Feb. (Outlook section) 8/2 Young Bangladeshis and Thais experiment with designer drugs like Ecstasy and more basic over-the-counter opiates. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, December 2004; most recently modified version published online March 2022). > as lemmas over the counter a. A banker's or money-changer's table; also, the table in a shop on which the money paid by purchasers is counted out, and across which goods are delivered. The tradesman stands behind the counter; goods are sold and money paid over the counter.In modern times the shop-counter is also used for the display of goods, but this is not implied in the name. ΘΚΠ society > trade and finance > trading place > place where retail transactions made > [noun] > shop > shop-fittings > counter show-board1453 shop board1516 counter1688 bar1954 society > trade and finance > financial dealings > types of money-dealing > [noun] > money-changing > money changer's establishment > table or counter bank1567 counter1688 society > trade and finance > financial dealings > banking > [noun] > bank > counter bench1755 bank counter1815 counter1875 α. 1688 R. Holme Acad. Armory iii. 259/1 He [is]..behind a Counter or Counting Table. 1701 D. Defoe True-born Englishman i. 25 Fate has but very small Distinction set Betwixt the Counter and the Coronet. 1712 J. Arbuthnot Law is Bottomless-pit ii. 6 Sometimes you would see him behind his Counter selling Broad Cloth. 1855 T. B. Macaulay Hist. Eng. III. 215 [He] might walk into a shop, lay on the counter a bit of brass worth threepence, and carry off goods to the value of half a guinea. 1875 W. S. Jevons Money (1878) 252 Pay it back over the counter to the credit of his account with the same banker. 1889 Times (Weekly ed.) 31 May 7/4 In fair days he would take some £40 over the counter. β. 1699 S. Garth Dispensary iii. 30 Then from the Compter he takes down the File.1731 H. Fielding Letter-writers ii. ii. 22 Do you sit behind a Desk, or stand behind a Compter?1798 Anti-Jacobin 7 May 205/1 Each spruce Nymph, from City Compters free.1826 M. R. Mitford Our Village II. 293 Mrs. Bennet, milliner..marshalled a compter full of caps and bonnets at one side of the shop. extracted from countern.³ < adv.adj.1864 as lemmas
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over the counteradv.adj.

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