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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151. This results in compressed files that run transparently, albeit with a marginal time overhead for code expansion.
152. As any Economics 101 student could have warned beforehand, none of these schemes has had more than a marginal impact.
153. But what happens at school can then further define the child as unusual, as marginal.
154. Similarly, accurate estimates of the marginal costs of production are often very difficult to obtain.
155. Break-even charts are useful for their indication of the effects of marginal changes in sales volume or costs on profit figures.
156. The deposits are, in the main, so marginal that large companies with financial muscle are required to exploit them.
157. Thus, beyond a certain point the marginal social benefit of further risk reduction will exceed the marginal social cost.
158. If the spot yield is the average return,[www.Sentencedict.com] then the forward rate can be interpreted as the marginal return.
159. Another factor not taken into account before the election was the number of expatriate Tory voters registered in marginal constituencies.
160. Their epistemic competence in multiple forms of life depends on the specific marginal discourses at their disposal owing to their specific background.
161. The market ensures that the price equals the marginal benefit and the marginal cost, and hence equates the two.
162. Firms still choose the quantity of labour demanded to equate the gross wage to the marginal value product of labour.
163. In turn this will move producers back down their marginal cost curves and alter the net-of-tax price producers require.
164. So marginal changes in time allocation to sport may be difficult.
165. Social efficiency requires that prices be close to marginal cost but this will imply losses for the natural monopolist.
166. A depressing picture, but nevertheless I would argue that there has been a marginal improvement over the years.
167. The earnout payment should reflect marginal improvements above this base.
168. Since there are no production externalities, this marginal private cost curve is also the marginal social cost curve.
169. The equilibrium price or insurance premium would equate the marginal cost and marginal benefit of risk-bearing.
170. That Bible contained marginal notes and special references that were irreplaceable.
171. In addition, there were energy charges intended to cover short-run marginal costs of operating the plant.
172. Table 16-2 shows that the first Thatcher government was able to reduce marginal tax rates substantially, especially for the very rich.
173. From the perspective of traditional psychology, such psychologists are, even more than egalitarian feminist psychologists, reassuringly marginal.
174. On Tuesday Invergordon Distillers reported a marginal improvement in underlying profits, no mean feat given the difficulties facing the whisky sector.
175. In the incremental approach, choices are typically marginal changes from existing policies.
176. The poor were moved into other marginal neighborhoods, and highly profitable upper middle class developments replaced the slums.
177. That is the quantity of extra resources that a competitive industry would use because it has higher average and marginal costs.
178. This lawyer was therefore classified as professionally marginal, in a structural rather than an attitudinal sense.
179. Its implications for women and families have been explored, rather than dismissed as marginal phenomena.
180. In Cambridge, there was a campaign to persuade students to register in the city, which was a marginal Conservative seat.
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