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call loan

American  

noun

  1. a loan repayable on demand.


call loan British  

noun

  1. Also called: demand loan.. a loan that is repayable on demand Compare time loan

"Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged" 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012

Etymology

Origin of call loan

First recorded in 1850–55


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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

Mr. Arnault has placed in his hands a call loan.

From A Young Girl's Wooing by Edward Payson Roe

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 John Williams Streeter

My secretary will arrange it—but mind this is on a call loan!

From Rimrock Jones by Dane Coolidge

The only semblance of a money market previously existing in this country was the call loan market of New York City.

From Readings in Money and Banking Selected and Adapted by Chester Arthur Phillips

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