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call market

American  

noun

  1. the market for lending call money.


Etymology

Origin of call market

First recorded in 1870–75

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Inadequate medical supplies or prices well above costs are evidence of what economists call market failure.

From Washington Post Jun. 24, 2019

A real estate exchange In an unobtrusive brick warehouse near San Francisco Bay, 75 or more heavyweight property dealers gather together once a month for what they call market day.

From Time Magazine Archive

He favored a limited form of branch banking, recommended prohibiting corporations from putting their surplus cash into the call market, frowned on security affiliates of banks which go unexamined.

From Time Magazine Archive

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