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margin-call

margin-call verb: to issue a margin call to (someone).

Verb

margin-call (third-person singular simple present margin-calls, present participle margin-calling, simple past and past participle margin-called)

  1. (transitive) To issue a margin call to (someone).
    • Not only was Merrill margin-calling subprime lenders, but it was now margin-calling a subprime hedge fund managed by one of its fiercest competitors.2008, Paul Muolo, Mathew Padilla, Chain of Blame: How Wall Street Caused the Mortgage and Credit Crisis, Hoboken, N.J.: John Wiley & Sons, Inc., →ISBN, page 243
    • The natural question after Tesla's recent tumble: At what point could the Technoking be margin called?2023 January 11, Tom Maloney, Dana Hull, “Elon Musk Might Never Be the World's Richest Person Again”, in Bloomberg, New York, N.Y.: Bloomberg L.P., →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 11 Jan...

Forms of margin-call

third-person singular presentmargin-calls
present participlemargin-calling
past participlemargin-called
pastmargin-called
alternative formmargin call

Questions about margin-call

What does margin-call mean?
Margin-call means to issue a margin call to (someone).
What part of speech is margin-call?
Margin-call is a verb.
What is the past tense of margin-call?
The past tense of margin-call is margin-called.

Words near margin-call in the dictionary

  1. margin of error
  2. margin of safety
  3. margin of victory
  4. margin shell
  5. margin shells
  6. margin-call
  7. margin-called
  8. margin-calling
  9. margin-calls
  10. Margina
  11. marginable

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