Synonym: bare, borderline, fringy, hardscrabble. Similar words: marginally, marginal land, marginalize, margin, profit margin, discharging, original, originally. Meaning: ['mɑrdʒɪnl /'mɑːd-] adj. 1. at or constituting a border or edge 2. of questionable or minimal quality 3. of a bare living gained by great labor 4. just barely adequate or within a lower limit 5. producing at a rate that barely covers production costs 6. being close to a lower limit or or of lower class.
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121. In the 1979 and 1983 elections there were examples of locally popular candidates holding their marginal seats against the national swing.
122. They imagine if they make subtle and marginal changes in tax rates everyone will notice.
123. The rising number of landless and marginal farmers poses a serious challenge.
124. For years marginal radio stations paid the rent with late-night or Sunday-morning preacher shows, which they aired for cash up front.
125. These political costs, moreover, produced only marginal gains in terms of local government expenditure control.
126. Such reductions might be marginal and therefore the enhancement tended to have less impact than when it was used for cross-school initiatives.
127. That is to say, policy changes more frequently take the form of relatively marginal changes to existing policies.
128. This excess of price over both marginal revenue and marginal cost is a convenient measure of the firm's monopoly power.sentencedict.com
129. Women's political life is characterised as marginal, shallow and inauthentic in comparison with that of men.
130. In this way we get closer to the efficient solution in which the marginal cost of pollution reduction is equalized across firms.
131. However, a second marginal comment in his New Testament both latches on to Crime and Punishment and provokes a backward thought.
132. They present as a major force in society attitudes and tastes which would be regarded as rather eccentric and marginal in Britain.
133. He has looked at marginal rates in some cases, but not in others.
134. One of the country's two most marginal seats, Brecon and Radnor, also declares today.
135. The result is a marginal increase in the risk of infection.
136. Large cities in America had become the home of the poor and socially marginal groups.
137. The general level of wages exceeded the marginal disutility of employment.
138. First, women's labour market participation is regarded as marginal in comparison with that of men.
139. The overwhelming conclusion emerging from any assessment of these programmes is that they have only a marginal impact on inner-urban problems.
140. Laboratory tests have two primary purposes, one of which is to detect marginal nutritional deficiencies.
141. Some crimes were acts of protest, but within the overall context of illegal activity they were marginal.
142. With no production externality, marginal private cost and marginal social cost coincide.
143. How could he make them see there was nothing to his scheme but the marginal notes of a diehard and fool?
144. And a difference between price and marginal cost can make behavior very different from that in a perfectly competitive model.
145. This is reflected in the model by a declining marginal cost curve.
146. The most important breeding habitat is lakes or ponds with good marginal vegetation.
147. It is normally posited that the marginal disutility of employment is an increasing function of the actual level of employment.
148. No good reason, that is to say, provided that the resultant marginal over-representation of those parties is fairly distributed between all of them.
149. And it could encourage harder work by reducing marginal tax rates.
150. Previous similar efforts with traditional expert systems technology met with marginal success.
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