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margin call
noun
, Stock Exchange.
- a demand from a brokerage house to a customer that more money or securities be deposited in their margin account when the amount in it falls below that stipulated as necessary to cover the stock purchased.
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Word History and Origins
Origin of margin call1
First recorded in 1960–65
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Example Sentences
Moore emerged looking “gaunt and pale” at the Oct. 17 premiere of Margin Call, according to Contact Music.
From The Daily Beast
“These valuations are then the basis for a margin call that can move real money from losers to gainers,” he says.
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Burns was forced to sell more than 650,000 shares in 2008 to meet a margin call because Lionsgate stock had dipped too low.
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