open-to-buy

noun

: the portion of a budget allotment remaining available for additional purchases at any given moment of a budgetary period

an open-to-buy is an amount which is budgeted for the placement of purchase orders

—H. D. Broehm

Word History

Etymology

from the phrase open to buy

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