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
Low call loan rates have an indirect rather than a direct effect on the rate which the mercantile community has to pay for money.
From Readings in Money and Banking Selected and Adapted by Phillips, Chester Arthur
The temporary or call loan, now over one hundred millions, may readily be kept at this sum even at a reduced rate of interest.
From Recollections of Forty Years in the House, Senate and Cabinet An Autobiography. by Sherman, John
My secretary will arrange it—but mind this is on a call loan!
From Rimrock Jones by Coolidge, Dane
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
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