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margent

[mahr-juhnt]

noun Archaic.

margin.

Origin:
1475–85; alteration of margin

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an arrangement of five objects, as trees, in a square or rectangle, one at each corner and one in the middle.

a printed punctuation mark (‽), available only in some typefaces, designed to combine the question mark (?) and the exclamation point (!), indicating a mixture of query and interjection, as after a rhetorical question.

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margin or (archaic) margent (ˈmɑːdʒɪn, ˈmɑːdʒənt)

—n
1.	an edge or rim, and the area immediately adjacent to it; border
2.	the blank space surrounding the text on a page
3.	a vertical line on a page, esp one on the left-hand side, delineating this space
4.	an additional amount or one beyond the minimum necessary: a margin of error
5.	chiefly (Austral) a payment made in addition to a basic wage, esp for special skill or responsibility
6.	a bound or limit
7.	the amount by which one thing differs from another: a large margin separated the parties
8.	commerce the profit on a transaction
9.	economics the minimum return below which an enterprise becomes unprofitable
10.	finance
	a. collateral deposited by a client with a broker as security
	b. the excess of the value of a loan's collateral over the value of the loan

—vb
11.	to provide with a margin; border
12.	finance to deposit a margin upon

[C14: from Latin margō border; related to march², mark¹]

margent or (archaic) margent

—n

—vb

[C14: from Latin margō border; related to march², mark¹]

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