marginal

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In the last chapter we examined the relation between utility and price, and found that the true relation was between the price and what we termed the marginal utility.

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  1. adjective 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.
  2. adjective Being adjacent geographically: states marginal to Canada.
  3. adjective Written or printed in the margin of a book: marginal notes.
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  • However, if the penetration is only at the border this is known as a marginal ground. —  Sun Tzu's The Art of War
  • Thompson said that the consolidation and deepening of the regional integration movement has been the chosen vehicle through which to reposition Caribbean economies and pointed out that the member states of the Caribbean Community have recognised that their prospects of survival as individual micro-states in the new world order are marginal, and that their last best hope lies in economic union. —  Caribbean Net News Daily Headlines
  • "Plant-derived indigo is a marginal, alternative product, and it does not currently compete with synthetic indigo," Vuorema says. —  innovations-report
  • If this is to include those from cultural traditions that are currently marginal, then the culture we are likely to end up with will be very different from the one we have now. —  Commonweal Magazine
  • If conditions are more marginal, the process could take several weeks. —  Horsetalk.co.nz Headlines
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  1. = French marginal = Spanish Portuguese marginal = Italian marginale, from New Latin marginalis, from Latin margo (margin-), margin: see margin.
 

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