margin-call

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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).
    • 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:
      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.
    • 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 January 2013:
      The natural question after Tesla's recent tumble: At what point could the Technoking be margin called?