MARGIN CALL

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does margin call mean? 

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

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

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

 Dictionary entry details 

• MARGIN CALL (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

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

Classified under:

Nouns denoting communicative processes and contents

Synonyms:

call; margin call

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

demand (an urgent or peremptory request)