MARGIN ACCOUNT

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does margin account mean? 

• MARGIN ACCOUNT (noun)
  The noun MARGIN ACCOUNT has 1 sense:

1. an account with a securities brokerage in which the broker extends credit

  Familiarity information: MARGIN ACCOUNT used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• MARGIN ACCOUNT (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

An account with a securities brokerage in which the broker extends credit

Classified under:

Nouns denoting possession and transfer of possession

Hypernyms ("margin account" is a kind of...):

brokerage account (a fund that a customer has entrusted to a securities brokerage)

Antonym:

cash account (an account with a securities brokerage whose transactions are settled on a cash basis)