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margin-call en · VERB

Meanings

  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 2013:

Forms

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margin-called Tense=Past, VerbForm=Part lexicographic
margin-called Tense=Past lexicographic
margin-calling Tense=Pres, VerbForm=Part lexicographic
margin call alternative lexicographic
margin-calls Number=Sing, Person=3, Tense=Pres lexicographic