round lot

nounStock Exchange.

  1. the conventional unit or quantity in which commodities or securities are bought and sold.

  2. (in a transaction) a quantity of 100 shares of a stock that is active or 10 shares of a stock that is inactive.

Origin of round lot

1
First recorded in 1900–05

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How to use round lot in a sentence

  • Among other peoples, only Scandinavians ever had such an all-round lot as this.

    All Afloat | William Wood

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