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noun Stock Exchange.

a demand from a brokerage house to a customer that more money or securities be deposited in his or her margin account when the amount in it falls below that stipulated as necessary to cover the stock purchased.

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Origin of margin call

First recorded in 1960–65

Words nearby margin call

marginal sinus of placenta, marginal tax rate, marginal utility, marginate, margination, margin call, margin line, margin of safety, marginoplasty, margin plank, margosa

How to use margin call in a sentence

“If investment banks didn’t do these margin calls, we probably wouldn’t have seen that,” said Francesc Rodriguez Tous, a finance professor at Cass Business School in London who previously worked at the central banks of England, Germany, and Spain.
How many hedge funds are a margin call away from Archegos-style implosion?|John Detrixhe|March 31, 2021|Quartz
A margin call is a request for additional collateral when a trader’s position or investment drops in value.
How many hedge funds are a margin call away from Archegos-style implosion?|John Detrixhe|March 31, 2021|Quartz
The only reason we know Bill Hwang’s hedge fund had risk up to its eyeballs using borrowed money is because it got caught out by margin calls.
How many hedge funds are a margin call away from Archegos-style implosion?|John Detrixhe|March 31, 2021|Quartz
Given the limited insight into hedge-fund borrowing and derivatives trading, there’s no way to know how many other funds are just a margin call away from collapse.
How many hedge funds are a margin call away from Archegos-style implosion?|John Detrixhe|March 31, 2021|Quartz

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It was like his beautiful courtesy to call me in and introduce me to Blow instead of letting me go away.
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After an hour, however, he reached this decision: He would not go to or call up Mrs. Merley.
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"I call you," the policeman said, and stripping the saddle and bridle from his sweaty horse, turned him loose to graze.
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Each did his duty, or was adjured to do it, in the "state of life to which it had pleased God to call him."
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