maintenance margin

maintenance margin definition - finance
A minimum margin, or cash balance, that a customer must maintain on deposit with his or her brokerage firm in order to continue purchasing securities on margin, or with borrowed funds.

Webster's New World Finance and Investment Dictionary Copyright © 2003 by Wiley Publishing, Inc., Indianapolis, Indiana.
Used by arrangement with John Wiley & Sons, Inc.

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