security deposit

1. 1.

   the amount of collateral a customer deposits with a broker when borrowing from the broker to buy securities

   Synonymsmargin

   Broaderdown payment

Questions about security deposit

What does security deposit mean?

security deposit means "the amount of collateral a customer deposits with a broker when borrowing from the broker to buy securities".

What is another word for security deposit?

Close synonyms include margin. 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 security deposit a common word?

security deposit 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.