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Definition of spot adjective from the Oxford Advanced Learner's Dictionary

spot

adjective
 
/spɒt/
 
/spɑːt/
[only before noun] (business)
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  1. connected with a system of buying and selling things where goods are delivered and paid for immediately after sale
    • spot prices
    Word OriginMiddle English: perhaps from Middle Dutch spotte. The sense ‘notice, recognize’ arose from the early 19th-cent. slang use ‘note as a suspect or criminal’.
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