English Dictionary

over-the-counter

adj

(pharmacology, of medicine and other treatments) Legal for sale or distribution without the requirement of a prescription.

I bought some over-the-counter medicine for my headache.

意味（1）

(pharmacology, of medicine and other treatments) Legal for sale or distribution without the requirement of a prescription.

over-the-counter drug, over-the-counter medicine

意味（2）

(finance) Involving direct interaction between two parties without an intermediary. Thus, denotes any market where items such as stocks or currency are bought and sold by direct arrangement between counterparties, or through a private broker, rather than on a public stock exchange or other exchange.

This is commencement week in over-the-counter insurance circles, the Whitman, Mass., savings bank having opened the ball with four applications made for $300 each by three prominent business men […]