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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181. The capital stock should be increased if the marginal social benefit exceeds the long-run marginal cost inclusive of the capital charge.
182. One method of doing this is the system of marginal costing.
183. In Britain at least, the role of art in the environmental movement has been fairly marginal.
184. In the name of democracy, they are transforming the political landscape to make democracy marginal.
185. For the strong propaganda machinery it was almost too easy to transform what had once been marginal into the nearly official.
186. The highest marginal rate of tax has fluctuated since 1969 between 34.13% and 20%.
187. Second, that in general this means reducing the value of allowances and broadening the tax base rather than increasing marginal tax rates.
188. Pricing at marginal cost might equate marginal cost and benefit but would entail losses.
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189. If we can measure the marginal cost directly, we can infer the implicit marginal benefit from saving life through that activity.
190. The model is one of monopolistic competition, in which each firm has a declining cost curve, although constant marginal cost.
191. Instead it allows for the discovery of both marginal gainers and losers.
192. Inpart this reflects the genuine difficulty in measuring marginal benefits.
193. To sum up, prices should be set at short-run marginal cost.
194. Given diminishing marginal utility of income, more income in one period can not compensate for lower income in another period.
195. This means that marginal tax rates for some elderly taxpayers are 85 % higher than for younger taxpayers.
196. By analogy, shows the marginal percapita crowding costs, i.e. the amount by which crowding costs increase as the population increases.
197. Some analysts believe Amec is in a strong enough position to give shareholders a marginal increase in their dividends.
198. Although most of the proposed changes in means-tested forms of support were confirmed the review would now realize only marginal financial savings.
199. Few had any special skills; they worked as casual laborers, eking out a marginal existence, often reduced to begging.
200. However, the Soviet initiative attracted only marginal support from the states in the region.
201. Many of the squatter settlements exhibit high levels of social organisation and stability rather than marginal characteristics.
202. The marginal rate of income tax is the percentage taken by the government of the last pound that an individual earns.
203. In the marginal fringe, where farmland meets wild moorland, woodland or marshland, there are several changes.
204. For example, an input may be priced at above marginal cost in a situation where there are variable proportions in production.
205. Marginal Costing Another duty of the accounts department is that of recording the costs incurred in company activities such as manufacturing.
206. Pricing at short-run marginal cost, the industry will charge a price P 2.
207. But written instructions in the blank spaces of books themselves do survive and so do tiny marginal thumbnail sketches to indicate subjects.
208. Each worker receives the value of his marginal product under competition.
209. In Sussex they are much more important for their breeding birds than reservoirs as they generally have much more marginal vegetation.
210. He was inaugurating Labour's national crusade on jobs, which will be concentrated on marginal Tory constituencies.
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