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Definition: Margin Call |
Margin CallNoun1. 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. |
| Domain | Definitions |
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. | |
Synonym: Margin CallSynonym: call (n). (additional references) |
| 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. |
| Expression | Frequency per Day |
margin call | 11 |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| 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 pedido de cobertura suplementar (call for margin, maintenance call), ordem para o aumento do depósito de garantia (call for margin, maintenance call). (various references) 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) marginalsäkerhetskrav (call for margin, maintenance call). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||
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. | |
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Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)4D 61 72 67 69 6E      43 61 6C 6C |
| Leonardo da Vinci (1452-1519; backwards) (references)
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Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)01001101 01100001 01110010 01100111 01101001 01101110 00100000 01000011 01100001 01101100 01101100 |
HTML Code (1990) (references)M a r g i n   C a l l |
ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)004D 0061 0072 0067 0069 006E      0043 0061 006C 006C |
Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)476784737580237677878 |
| 1. Definition 2. Synonyms 3. Expressions: Internet 4. Translations: Modern | 5. Anagrams 6. Orthography 7. Bibliography |
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