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from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.

  • noun A quantity that differs from a standard trading unit, especially an amount of stock of fewer than 100 shares.

from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.

  • noun economics A block of shares of stock that is not a multiple of some number, usually 100.
  • noun economics A set of leftover goods, of a quantity less than an evenly divisible shippable unit, often sold at reduced price.

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