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.
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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211. For a start, subsidies themselves encourage over-intensive farming by making it economic to farm marginal land.
212. Which is why two of the candidates in the marginal Darlington constituency have said such strange things about cigarettes lately.
213. Mr Devlin's constituency was a marginal seat before Parliament was dissolved last week, having a majority of 774.
214. In theory this process could go as far as equating marginal cost with demand so that the bureaucracy obtains all the consumer surplus.
215. In equilibrium this higher marginal revenue exactly offsets transportation costs.
216. Since marginal cost is less than marginal consumer benefit, society would gain by expanding the output of such industries.
217. When evaluating capital budgeting decisions, it is this marginal cost that should be used as the appropriate cost of capital.
218. There is a case for government intervention to make sure marginal social cost and marginal social benefit are equated.
219. To raise his wage without raising his marginal productivity would be to put his pay above his contribution.
220. Equating marginal cost and marginal revenue[sentencedict.com], each firm will produce an output at which price exceeds marginal cost.
221. Short-run marginal cost pricing equates immediate marginal costs and marginal benefits.
222. Some 15,000 crofts, small family farm units that offer marginal incomes and mainly part-time employment, have survived.
223. Other market proxies have laid down rules for pricing according to marginal cost.
224. For other groups the authors note that the overall marginal tax rate was at an historically high level in excess of 60 percent.
225. By skill, diligence and training, the individual could raise his marginal product and hence the wage he could claim.
226. Thus at the output Q the social marginal benefit is.
227. The monopolist produces an output Q M at a price P M thus equating marginal cost and marginal revenue.
228. Currency movements had only a marginal impact on the results.
229. In this example, the marginal benefit of another film exceeds the marginal cost of producing another film.
230. Theoretical transfer pricing is all very well[sentencedict.com], but in practice not many companies will know their marginal cost and revenue functions.
231. But it will make only a marginal difference to the stagnant housing market.
232. I think he's just got a marginal talent he's masterful at exploiting.
233. Many of its workers and functions were of marginal utility and at the cost of a better price to cocoa farmers.
234. Your marginal costs are also society's marginal costs, but society's marginal benefits exceed your own.
235. The difference between the average and marginal tax rates illustrated in Exhibit 2. 2 may be best explained by an example.
236. Unless there is any redress to this distortion, the marginal products of labour will not be equal.
237. In the age of mass communications, politics is becoming ever more marginal.
238. It may thus transpire that a marginal improvement is insufficient to justify the increase in complexity associated with this algorithm.
239. But that functioning is marginal to the lives of most people in affluent societies.
240. So it must be assumed that the importance of marginal increments of all production is low and declining.
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