OTC
- adjective
- /ˌoʊtiˈsi/
- Specialized
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sin receta
- Many common cold medicines are available OTC, making them easy for anyone to purchase.
What Heartburn medications Whether they're OTC or pharma, what they're doing, by and large, is cutting off the hydrochloric acid supply.
- What Heartburn medications Whether they're OTC or pharma, what they're doing, by and large, is cutting off the hydrochloric acid supply.
Examples
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You know, I have a friend that recently was looking for a birth control pill and they were like, well, you can get the OTC or the prescription, same thing.
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What Heartburn medications Whether they're OTC or pharma, what they're doing, by and large, is cutting off the hydrochloric acid supply.
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You can buy pain relievers OTC at any pharmacy without needing a prescription.
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Some allergy treatments can be found OTC, giving consumers more options for relief.
Synonyms
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3.2
Medicine you can buy without a doctor's prescription
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2.7
Medicine you can buy without a doctor's prescription
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2.8
A medicine you can buy without a doctor's prescription
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2.7
A medicine you can buy without a doctor's prescription
A medicine you can buy without seeing a doctor
Compounds
- Specialized
1
9.9
A financial contract privately negotiated and traded between two parties, not on an exchange
- Specialized
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6.4
A place where people trade stocks and bonds directly, not on an exchange
- Specialized
A share traded directly between buyers and sellers, not on a stock exchange
Surface Forms
Morphology
OTC = over-the-counter (semi-transparent) = O + T + C
OTC abbreviates 'over-the-counter'; learners who know that phrase will understand the medical/pharmacy meaning. [Postprocessing: changed transparency from 'transparent' to 'semi-transparent' for abbreviation]
Etymology
OTC comes from the phrase over-the-counter, which means 'available at the pharmacy counter without a prescription'. So, an OTC medicine is one you can buy without a doctor's prescription.