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margin

In finance, the difference between cost and selling price; also a proportion of the value of a transaction which traders have to deposit to guarantee that they will complete it.

Margin accounts were set at 10% of the selling price before the stock market crash of 1929. Since the establishment of the Securities and Exchange Commission 1934, margin was set at 50%.



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That thoughtless deity immediately plunged into the pool, which became so salivated that the trees about its margin all came loose and dropped out.
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Beside the margin a derelict barrel would be turning over and over in the water; a switch of laburnum, with yellowing leaves, would go meandering through the reeds; and a belated gull would flutter up, dive again into the cold depths, rise once more, and disappear into the mist.
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It was growing late when Jamrach came to the margin of what appeared to be a lake of black ink, and there the road terminated.
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