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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

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

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

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

When the call loan rate is high country banks do not receive interest in proportion to the value of their deposits.

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

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