Of, relating to, located at, or constituting a margin, a border, or an edge: the marginal strip of beach; a marginal issue that had no bearing on the election results.
Definition of marginal adjective in Oxford Advanced Learner's Dictionary. Meaning, pronunciation, picture, example sentences, grammar, usage notes, synonyms and more.
Marginal activities, costs, or taxes are not the main part of a business or an economic system, but often make the difference between its success or failure, and are therefore important to control.
Factsheet What does the word marginal mean? There are 17 meanings listed in OED's entry for the word marginal. See ‘Meaning & use’ for definitions, usage, and quotation evidence.
• The difference between the two cars is marginal. • Businesses can already buy from suppliers in different countries, and exchange costs are marginal. • Instead it allows for the discovery of both marginal gainers and losers.
marginal propensity to save and consume marginal tax rate marginal efficiency of capital Marginalism is the use of marginal concepts to explain economic phenomena. The related concept of elasticity is the ratio of the incremental percentage change in one variable with respect to an incremental percentage change in another variable.
Of, relating to, located at, or constituting a margin, a border, or an edge: the marginal strip of beach; a marginal issue that had no bearing on the election results.