call loan
Americannoun
noun
Etymology
Origin of call loan
First recorded in 1850–55
Example Sentences
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Still the member banks reported that corporations and individuals were withdrawing deposits and putting their funds on the call loan market.
From Time Magazine Archive
The deposits average more than one hundred millions a day; and it dominates the call loan market on Wall Street and the stock market.
From The Iron Heel by London, Jack
Polly was searching fruitlessly for something to dry the tears that overran her eyes, and I was able to lend her aid, but the accommodation was of the nature of a "call loan."
From The Fat of the Land The Story of an American Farm by Streeter, John Williams
There was an air about Morley when he was backed by money in hand that would have stayed off a call loan at Rothschilds'.
From The Trimmed Lamp, and other Stories of the Four Million by Henry, O.
An exclusive system of cash dealings brings about the pre-ponderance of the call loan on stock exchange collateral.
From Readings in Money and Banking Selected and Adapted by Phillips, Chester Arthur
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