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Glossary

Every term is defined twice: once the way a filing would put it, and once the way somebody would explain it to you across a table. The second one is usually the one that sticks.

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Margin money

Market basics

The share of a cost the borrower pays from their own funds, with the loan covering the rest.

In plain terms

In an education loan, the part of the fees and costs the family pays; the percentage often differs for study in India and abroad.

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Restricted cash

Accounting

Cash and bank balances a company cannot use freely — margin money and lien-marked deposits held against guarantees and letters of credit, escrow balances, and amounts earmarked under a statute or a contract.

In plain terms

Broken out in the cash and bank note. Netting it against borrowings, as most screeners do, quietly overstates the company’s position by the whole of it.

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Indian stock market glossary · Market Vidyalaya