call loan
Americannoun
noun
Etymology
Origin of call loan
First recorded in 1850–55
Example Sentences
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Still the member banks reported that corporations and individuals were withdrawing deposits and putting their funds on the call loan market.
From Time Magazine Archive
The agreement binds in a way perfectly familiar to the business world in the call loan or the tenancy at will.
From Socialism As It Is A Survey of The World-Wide Revolutionary Movement by Walling, William English
Polly was searching fruitlessly for something to dry the tears that overran her eyes, and I was able to lend her aid, but the accommodation was of the nature of a "call loan."
From The Fat of the Land The Story of an American Farm by Streeter, John Williams
My secretary will arrange it—but mind this is on a call loan!
From Rimrock Jones by Coolidge, Dane
The deposits average more than one hundred millions a day; and it dominates the call loan market on Wall Street and the stock market.
From The Iron Heel by London, Jack
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