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Margin Call

Definition: Margin Call

Margin Call

Noun

1. A demand by a broker that a customer deposit enough to bring his margin up to the minimum requirement.

Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
 

 

Specialty Definitions: Margin Call

DomainDefinitions

Agriculture

(1) A request from a brokerage firm to a customer to bring margin deposits up to initial levels; (2) a request by the clearinghouse to a clearing member to make a deposit of original margin, or a daily or intra-day variation payment, because of adverse price movement, based on positions carried by the clearing member. (references)

Finance

Request for additional cover in forward deals. Source: European Union. (references)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Synonym: Margin Call

Synonym: call (n). (additional references)

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Frequency of Internet Keywords: Margin Call

The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com.
 
ExpressionFrequency
per Day

margin call

11
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Modern Translations: Margin Call

Language Translations for "margin call"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses.

Danish

  

marginindkald (call for margin, maintenance call), marginindbetalingskrav (call for margin, maintenance call), margin call (call for margin, maintenance call). (various references)

   

Dutch

  

margin call (call for margin, maintenance call), opvraging van een marge (call for margin, maintenance call). (various references)

   

Finnish

  

vakuuksien kasvattamispyyntö (call for margin, maintenance call). (various references)

   

French

  

appel de marge (call for margin, maintenance call), appel de couverture (call for margin, maintenance call). (various references)

   

German

  

Aufforderung zur Nachschußzahlung (call for margin, maintenance call). (various references)

   

Greek 

  

συμπληρωματική κατάθεση (call for margin, maintenance call). (various references)

   

Italian

  

richiesta di copertura (call for margin, maintenance call), richiamo di mantenimento (call for margin, maintenance call). (various references)

   

Pig Latin

  

arginmay allcay

   

Portuguese

  

pedido de cobertura suplementar (call for margin, maintenance call), ordem para o aumento do depósito de garantia (call for margin, maintenance call). (various references)

   

Spanish

  

requerimiento de depósito (call for margin, maintenance call), petición de margen adicional (call for margin, maintenance call), petición de aportación de margen (call for margin, maintenance call), cobertura adicional (call for margin, maintenance call). (various references)

   

Swedish

  

marginalsäkerhetskrav (call for margin, maintenance call). (various references)

Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

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Anagrams: Margin Call

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Words within the letters "a-a-c-g-i-l-l-m-n-r"

-2 letters: alarming, craaling, gallican, lacrimal, marginal.

-3 letters: ancilla, armilla, calling, calming, carinal, carling, cranial, glacial, laminal, laminar, magical, malling, manilla, marling.

-4 letters: acinar, agamic, agaric, agnail, airman, animal, arcing, argali, arming, arnica, caiman, calami, callan, camail, carina, caring, carlin, carman, carnal, clinal, crania, gallic, garlic, lacing, laical, lamina, laming, lingam, macing, magian, malign, maniac.

 Words containing the letters "a-a-c-g-i-l-l-m-n-r"
 

+3 letters: agronomically, mineralogical.

 

+4 letters: morganatically, organismically, organometallic.

 

+5 letters: circumvallating, gastronomically, mineralogically, organometallics, phonogramically.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Alternative Orthography: Margin Call


Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)

4D 61 72 67 69 6E      43 61 6C 6C

Leonardo da Vinci (1452-1519; backwards) (references)

    

Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)

01001101 01100001 01110010 01100111 01101001 01101110 00100000 01000011 01100001 01101100 01101100

HTML Code (1990) (references)

&#77 &#97 &#114 &#103 &#105 &#110 &#32 &#67 &#97 &#108 &#108

ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)

004D 0061 0072 0067 0069 006E      0043 0061 006C 006C

Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)

476784737580237677878

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INDEX

1. Definition
2. Synonyms
3. Expressions: Internet
4. Translations: Modern
5. Anagrams
6. Orthography
7. Bibliography


  

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