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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