margin call

1. 1.

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

   Synonymscall

   Broaderdemand

Questions about margin call

What does margin call mean?

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

What is another word for margin call?

Close synonyms include call. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is margin call a common word?

margin call is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.