'Regular sales' definitions:

Definition of 'Regular sales'

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  • Regular \Reg"u*lar\ (-l?r), a. [L. regularis, fr. regula a rule, fr. regere to guide, to rule: cf. F. r['e]gulier. See Rule.] [1913 Webster]
  • 1. Conformed to a rule; agreeable to an established rule, law, principle, or type, or to established customary forms; normal; symmetrical; as, a regular verse in poetry; a regular piece of music; a regular verb; regular practice of law or medicine; a regular building. [1913 Webster]
  • 2. Governed by rule or rules; steady or uniform in course, practice, or occurence; not subject to unexplained or irrational variation; returning at stated intervals; steadily pursued; orderlly; methodical; as, the regular succession of day and night; regular habits. [1913 Webster]
  • 3. Constituted, selected, or conducted in conformity with established usages, rules, or discipline; duly authorized; permanently organized; as, a regular meeting; a regular physican; a regular nomination; regular troops. [1913 Webster]
  • 4. Belonging to a monastic order or community; as, regular clergy, in distinction dfrom the secular clergy. [1913 Webster]
  • 5. Thorough; complete; unmitigated; as, a regular humbug. [Colloq.] [1913 Webster]
  • 6. (Bot. & Zool.) Having all the parts of the same kind alike in size and shape; as, a regular flower; a regular sea urchin. [1913 Webster]
  • 7. (Crystallog.) Same as Isometric. [1913 Webster]
  • Regular polygon (Geom.), a plane polygon which is both equilateral and equiangular.
  • Regular polyhedron (Geom.), a polyhedron whose faces are equal regular polygons. There are five regular polyhedrons, -- the tetrahedron, the hexahedron, or cube, the octahedron, the dodecahedron, and the icosahedron.
  • Regular sales (Stock Exchange), sales of stock deliverable on the day after the transaction.
  • Regular troops, troops of a standing or permanent army; -- opposed to militia. [1913 Webster]
  • Syn: Normal; orderly; methodical. See Normal. [1913 Webster]