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call money

American  

noun

  1. money lent by banks, as to brokerage firms, on which repayment may be demanded at any time.


call money British  

noun

  1. money loaned by banks and recallable on demand

"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

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So there are elements of social agreement and power in this very useful thing we call money.

From New York Times Jan. 16, 2018

A job simply grants us access to man-made vouchers we call money.

From BBC May 25, 2015

By that point, hopefully, we've established trust—what we call money in the bank.

From Inc Aug. 2, 2010

But a chasm still yawned between interest rates on deposits and on call money.

From Time Magazine Archive

There was a continuous market everywhere up to the last moment, and call money was obtainable at reasonable prices.

From The New York Stock Exchange in the Crisis of 1914 by Noble, Henry George Stebbins

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