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 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 Phillips, Chester Arthur
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
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.
The agreement binds in a way perfectly familiar to the business world in the call loan or the tenancy at will.
From Socialism As It Is A Survey of The World-Wide Revolutionary Movement by Walling, William English
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