remargin

verb

1. To update the margin on an investment; to check and if necessary adjust the collateral security to a broker in case the price of an investment has changed more than the current margin can cover.

   “Positive denial is made by local dealers of the report from New York that Chicago owners of storage eggs will be required to remargin their holdings at $1.50.”

   “By making only a small additional margin deposit, or in some cases no additional deposit, a purchaser can remargin his account and buy more silver.”

2. To change the size of the margin (on a document).

   “To name a few of its abilities, it will: • align margins left or right, or center lines • automatically put in returns as you type • indent (or outdent) paragraphs • allow you to insert or delete freely • move paragraphs (or any portion of the text) from place to place • allow you to undo a deletion • remargin and reparagraph if necessary • do a wide range of search and search-and-replace operations”

   “The cursor must not be placed in the line containing the Command Character when using M(argin as this causes the Editor to ignore the Command Character and remargin that line and any adjacent lines”

   “Yet, reflecting current approaches, he also explained how to split a sheet of paper and remargin a print”

noun

1. An additional payment made when remargining.

   “Order received from Mr. H.E. Beckett to buy ten shares Tennessee Coal and Iron at 17¼, remargin required, $30.”

   “but it will be recalled that each original Contract purchased cost at least $100 as a Margin; that the exchanging from one month to another cost $100 if the Market has declined; that a decline of 17 points (if Dealer is not well rated) will call for an additional $100, and a subsequent decline of a similar number of points calls for a remargin of like amount.”

2. The act of remargining.

   “He was unable to explain to our satisfaction how he could handle 10 shares on $30 margin “so that all transactions made under the double trading system are protected and there are no calls for remargins."”

   “The third and fourth rows of Figures 1 and 2 show how the grace period and the remargin period affect EPE.”

   “As illustrated in Figure 5.1, at some point far in the future it is known that a position is likely to be well-collateralised and hence the main concern is the relatively small amount of risk over the remargin period.”