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remargin

remargin verb: to update the margin on an investment; to check and if necessary adjust the collateral security to a broker in case the price of an investment has changed more than the current margin can cover.

Verb

remargin (third-person singular simple present remargins, present participle remargining, simple past and past participle remargined)

  1. To update the margin on an investment; to check and if necessary adjust the collateral security to a broker in case the price of an investment has changed more than the current margin can cover.
    • Positive denial is made by local dealers of the report from New York that Chicago owners of storage eggs will be required to remargin their holdings at $1.50.1912, New York Produce Review and American Creamery
    • By making only a small additional margin deposit, or in some cases no additional deposit, a purchaser can remargin his account and buy more silver.1975, Commodity Futures Law Reporter, page 42
  2. To change the size of the margin (on a document).
    • To name a few of its abilities, it will: • align margins left or right, or center lines • automatically put in returns as you type • indent (or outdent) paragraphs • allow you to insert or delete freely • move paragraphs (or any portion of the text) from place to place • allow you to undo a...1979, Oncomputing - Issue 2, page 48
    • The cursor must not be placed in the line containing the Command Character when using M(argin as this causes the Editor to ignore the Command Character and remargin that line and any adjacent lines1984, K. Buckner, Using the UCSD P-system, page 86

Noun

remargin (plural remargins)

  1. An additional payment made when remargining.
    • Order received from Mr. H.E. Beckett to buy ten shares Tennessee Coal and Iron at 17¼, remargin required, $30.1906, In the Appellate Division of the Supreme Court of the State, page 464
    • but it will be recalled that each original Contract purchased cost at least $100 as a Margin; that the exchanging from one month to another cost $100 if the Market has declined; that a decline of 17 points (if Dealer is not well rated) will call for an additional $100, and a subsequent decline of a...1925, Thomas Southworth Miller, Cotton Trade Guide and Student's Manual, page 109
  2. The act of remargining.
    • He was unable to explain to our satisfaction how he could handle 10 shares on $30 margin “so that all transactions made under the double trading system are protected and there are no calls for remargins."1909, The Magazine of Wall Street - Volumes 5-6, page 172
    • The third and fourth rows of Figures 1 and 2 show how the grace period and the remargin period affect EPE.2005, Michael S. Gibson, Measuring Counterparty Credit Exposure to a Margined Counterparty

Forms of remargin

Verb
third-person singular presentremargins
present participleremargining
past participleremargined
pastremargined
Noun
pluralremargins

Origin of remargin

From re- + margin.

Questions about remargin

What does remargin mean?
Remargin means to update the margin on an investment; to check and if necessary adjust the collateral security to a broker in case the price of an investment has changed more than the current margin can cover.
What part of speech is remargin?
Remargin can be a verb or a noun.
What is the past tense of remargin?
The past tense of remargin is remargined.

Words near remargin in the dictionary

  1. remaps
  2. remarch
  3. remarched
  4. remarches
  5. remarching
  6. remargin
  7. remarginalization
  8. remarginalize
  9. remarginalized
  10. remarginalizes
  11. remarginalizing

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