to buy (off)
71off-floor order — Used for listed equity securities. (1) order to buy or sell a security that originates off the floor of an exchange; customer orders originating with brokers, as distinguished from orders placed by floor members trading for their own accounts.… …
72off the rack — 1. at the usual price. Members can get discounts of up to 50 percent on the hotels off the rack rates. 2. from among the goods available in stores. We are requiring contestants to buy their outfits off the rack and banning custom made costumes …
73off-the-shelf — UK / US adjective, adverb sold for general use, not made for a particular person or purpose off the shelf computer software You can buy all these items off the shelf …
74Buy The Book — An order to purchase all shares available in the market for a particular stock at the current selling price. A buy the book order is most likely to be made by an institutional investor, and is generally to be executed at the current market price …
75off the books — Book Book (b[oo^]k), n. [OE. book, bok, AS. b[=o]c; akin to Goth. b[=o]ka a letter, in pl. book, writing, Icel. b[=o]k, Sw. bok, Dan. bog, OS. b[=o]k, D. boek, OHG. puoh, G. buch; and fr. AS. b[=o]c, b[=e]ce, beech; because the ancient Saxons and …
76off — sour, spoiled The cream tastes a bit off. I think we should buy fresh cream …
77off licence — Everyday English Slang in Ireland n liquor store, place to buy take away booze …
78off-by-one error — /ɒf baɪ ˈwʌn ɛrə/ (say of buy wun eruh) noun Computers a programming error which results in a repeated loop iterating once too often, frequently caused by the fact that the programmer fails to appreciate that the sequence has started at 0 rather… …
79off-licence — / ɒf ˌlaɪs(ə)ns/ noun 1. a shop which sells alcohol for drinking at home 2. a licence to sell alcohol for drinking away from the place where you buy it …
80pay off — verb 1. yield a profit or result (Freq. 4) His efforts finally paid off • Hypernyms: ↑yield, ↑pay, ↑bear • Verb Frames: Something s 2. eliminate by paying off ( …
