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marginal

If something is marginal, it is not very large, important or central. But this discussion is marginal to the real issue. (in finance) The marginal profit, tax rate, etc. is the percent earned or paid on one more unit of production or income. Large scale economies tend to mean that the marginal cost of serving an additional customer is either zero or very small. If something is marginal, it is low quality, almost unacceptable. His writing is marginal at best. I don't think he'll pass. If something is marginal, it is written in a margin. I can't read the marginal notes.

marginal

at or constituting a border or edge the marginal strip of beach (= borderline) of questionable or minimal quality borderline grades marginal writing ability producing at a rate that barely covers production costs marginal industries (= bare) just barely adequate or within a lower limit a bare majority a marginal victory

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It's compensation, Leo, for the marginal life we lead.
Not because I realized the that would marginal to. Soon it had satisfied their needs.
It would be a splendid economy. And show great political courage to sack staff in depressed marginal constituencies.
And it is full of marginal constit.
All these marginal seats, d'you see?
Not to mention three marginal by-elections.
It's gonna be marginal. We have to go across in small groups.
Kids I can understand, Hulk was always marginal, but West.
As an officer and a gentleman you are obliged to give me a marginal chance of winning.
One of Blake's favorite tricks is to pick up second mortgages on marginal businesses.
In marginal constituencies, obviously.
Marginal quality from dubious sources.
There are marginal seats in Bristol, Nottingham, Glasgow, Basildon and Northern Ireland, all with tobacco workers.
The government must do what's right, but not if it affects marginal constituencies.
Now, either we go on the 6th, with only marginal conditions or postpone again in the hope of getting perfect conditions.
He's never broken the law, at least not severely, and for the past seven years, with his one-man spaceship, he has obtained a marginal living by engaging in the buying and selling of rare merchandise, including, unfortunately, tribbles.
And show great political courage to sack staff in depressed marginal constituencies.
She is Queen of Scotland too. And it is full of marginal constit.
It's gonna be marginal.
Not to mention the three marginal constituencies bordering mine!
The marginal, I mean, the special development areas.
By a marginal degree, yes.
Higher marginal rates on your taxes.
So here's two people who hate each other, don't really ever wanna talk but the phone machine is like this relationship respirator keeping these marginal, brain-dead relationships alive.
No, but considering what he did for a living he probably had dealings with all sorts of marginal characters.
It's a marginal adjustment.
The rest is marginal I mean, look around.
I think there's a more fundamental problem than marginal cost.
If you've had an attitude improvement, it's marginal.
Curtis, we're already marginal.
Jobs may have been a marginal issue, Kate in some of the rust belt battle ground states.
I mean, demographically speaking, you still have a lot of marginal types.
This is my punishment, This marginal existence.
But 20 years ago when they arrived, it was degraded, marginal pasture land.

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If the threshold spread is set reasonably high in order to achieve a significant discount, the stock of debt retired by the buyback would be marginal.
Obama would raise the top marginal tax rates on wages, capital gains, dividends, interest, and estates, especially on higher-income individuals and small businesses.
The goal was to deal aggressively and proactively with some of the marginal health impacts of global warming.
While European police forces place prevention at the top of their agendas, France has chosen to treat it as a marginal goal.
Immigration countries gain because all but marginal migrants produce more value added than they get back in wages.
If immigrants gain welfare benefits in addition to wages, more will be lured into coming than necessary, and marginal migrants would create welfare losses for the EU equal to the benefits.
Neoclassical economic theory, which has dominated in the West for a century, holds that each individual's compensation reflects his marginal social contribution - what he adds to society.
Private insurance would discourage construction in the most dangerous locations, owing to prohibitively high premiums, while encouraging the adoption of tsunami-resistant building standards in marginal areas.
Usually, this principle means that marginal tax rates should be similar at different levels of labor income, for various types of consumption, for outlays today versus tomorrow, and so on.
Thus, the government has moved in the wrong direction since 2009, sharply raising marginal tax rates at the bottom (by dramatically increasing transfer programs) and, more recently, at the top (by raising tax rates on the rich).
One of the most efficient tax-raising methods is the US payroll tax, for which the marginal tax rate is close to the average rate (because deductions are absent and there is little graduation in the rate structure).
The associated revenue increase was, at least, across the board, rather than the unbalanced hike in marginal tax rates at the top that was enacted.
The Islamists are neither a marginal political group nor a terrorist force.
The second inheritance was a flexible, deregulated economy with fairly low marginal tax rates, a legacy of the Reagan-Bush era.
Contrary to popular perception, the public-sector wage bill is only of marginal importance.
Environmental issues are of paramount importance in marginal countries because their impact on human survival is immediate and direct.
Under a North Korean collective leadership dominated by the military, the power of the country's economic bureaucrats will be marginal, at best.
A quotation by President John F. Kennedy states that high tax rates can strangle the economy, but Kennedy's was speaking a half-century ago, when the top marginal tax rates were twice what they are today.
Another post-election route to deficit reduction would be to lower marginal tax rates and balance that revenue loss with cuts in tax expenditures.
Tax revenue can be raised without increasing marginal tax rates by limiting the tax subsidies that are built into the current tax code.
But, as the marginal productivity gains from such investment began to fall, senior managers' survival and compensation continued to be tied to stock-market performance.
And the higher marginal tax rates would reduce incentives to work and to invest, further impeding economic activity.
Its position in the world economy is marginal - tenuously plugged into global investment flows and dependent on northern markets for its commodity exports, tariff preferences, and financial aid.
Moreover, an existing pipeline network implies that this conventional gas can be brought to Europe at a low marginal cost.
Even so, such marginal forces do not yet constitute a system for redressing grievances.
A large group of migrant workers and families (on the order of 150 to 200 million people) are formally still rural, but in fact are marginal urban residents with constrained rights and access to services.

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