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margin

[mahr-jin]

noun

the space around the printed or written matter on a page.

an amount allowed or available beyond what is actually necessary: to allow a margin for error.

a limit in condition, capacity, etc., beyond or below which something ceases to exist, be desirable, or be possible: the margin of endurance; the margin of sanity.

a border or edge.

Philately. selvage (def. 3).

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Finance.

security, as a percentage in money, deposited with a broker by a client as a provision against loss on transactions.

the amount representing the customer's investment or equity in such an account.

the difference between the amount of a loan and the market value of the collateral pledged as security for it.

Commerce. the difference between the cost and the selling price.

an amount or degree of difference: The measure passed by a margin of just three votes.

10.

Economics. the point at which the return from economic activity barely covers the cost of production, and below which production is unprofitable.

11.

Entomology. the border of an insect's wing.

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verb (used with object)

12.

to provide with a margin or border.

13.

to furnish with marginal notes, as a document.

14.

to enter in the margin, as of a book.

15.

Finance. to deposit a margin upon.

16.

Stock Exchange. to purchase (securities) on margin: That stock was heavily margined during the last month.

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Origin:
1300–50; Middle English < Latin margin- (stem of margō) border; akin to march²

Synonyms
3. confine, bound. 4. rim, verge, brink. See edge.

Antonyms
4. center.

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Example Sentences

The proposed contract, which first looked as if it would be voted down, has so far been approved by a small margin.

The company did not calculate a margin of error for its findings.

Compare the lead in successive polls by one company, and the margin of error is higher still.

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The proposed contract, which first looked as if it would be voted down, has so far been approved by a small margin.

The company did not calculate a margin of error for its findings.

Compare the lead in successive polls by one company, and the margin of error is higher still.

At these elevations, plants grow slowly and their margin of survival is narrow.

The public media should know that every poll has a margin of error, and their reporting should reflect that.

The margin is the first position in the buffer that is visible on the display.

Private-equity firms had previously eschewed the tender offer because of margin rules.

We suggest that she decrease the size of her bottom margin.

All that matters is that its margin of superior efficiency is greater for some products than for others.

Whatever the source, the profit margin on a working computer is substantial.

It is my understanding that the profit margin for agricultural products is actually quite small.

But that's a smaller margin of defeat than a similar effort last month.

But the margin for error in handling both the solids and liquids is thin.

One map, for example, highlights counties where the victor won by only a small margin.

At issue is the margin of spare capacity that has opened up after a period when the economy has grown below trend.

The path of the sun and planets are illustrated and there are interesting facts about the solar system listed in the margin.

Even a slim margin of young people being influenced to behave differently can change the direction of a nation.

But with all the close-quarters aerial maneuvering, there's zero margin for error.

And admissions preferences only matter at the margin.

Large sugar producers may thus keep enormous sums of cash on the side-line in order to be able to make potential margin payments.

In one sense the margin for life was exactly the distance from the lilies above my head to my toes buried in the sand.

Agribiz is a high profit margin business, farming isn't.

But the margin of error was large enough that many more may have made progress.

Once again, neither effect was large enough that it lay outside the margin of error.

Symbols are defined in the map legend, which is found in the map margin or on the map itself.

In fact, one of the roots of my concern is that nobody will know for sure when the safety margin has been eroded too far.

Colorado voters narrowly rejected such a referendum last week by a razor-thin margin that took two days to become official.

But there can be forced sellers, when investors need to dump their holdings to meet margin calls or repay debts.

For many foods, such as fish and certain vegetables, the margin of error is quite narrow.

Polls suggest that, one way or another, the margin will be slim.

Setae are, in other words, even stickier than expected-giving the gecko a surprisingly large safety margin.

Simplified sketch of coupled erosional-depositional sedimentary systems across a continental margin.

Mendel got a copy and read it carefully, putting notes in the margin.

It wants the government to restrain speculative inflows by imposing far higher initial margin requirements on currency futures.

In a soccer kick, the greater contact area provides more margin for error.

Firms invest up to the point at which the extra return covers the cost of capital plus a profit margin.

Its ilium is distinctive, being dorsally convex in profile and with a thick dorsal margin.

But their service imports exceeded their exports of services by a wide margin.

That's right, they were only in the margin of error.

They're all much smaller than the margin of error, and simply repeating the poll could produce different results.

Those who had bought stocks using borrowed money have been forced to sell millions to settle so-called margin loans with banks.

Comparing costs and benefits at the margin is not always the right way to make decisions.

Have each group locate their news story using a push pin and attach their index card along the margin of the map.

Several commodities experts said the failure to enforce the margin requirements had amounted to favorable treatment.

What really matters is whether the interest margin properly reflects the risk of default.

They differed only in date, and such similarity diminishes the margin for error.

If actual clean-up costs for the insolvency are less than the margin call, the excess can be refunded.

Just blow up the font by5 and spacing5 and increase the margin size by a little bit.

It seems some phenomena are determinate within some margin of error.

But new regulations that take effect later this month are aimed at increasing the margin of safety in a crash.

Oh but wait, if you can't cough up the dough for your margin maintenance, they take your stock.

Here crystal waters flex into a sweeping bend of stream with a margin of gravel beach.

The only thing they're extending is the seller's profit margin.

Reliability issues seems to be well-addressed although gross margin questions remain.

Every low margin business the compete in was due to technology transfer of the.

He also carried the state by his second biggest margin anywhere.

They then created multiple data sets based on the margin of error within the measurements themselves.

Asus will have to beat that price by a significant margin.

Overall, foreign-born students grad are the majority in engineering by a large margin.

The slim margin for error means confidence could still evaporate, with even good banks dragged down by counterparty risk.

Still, their status has offered a critical margin of protection.

It would be interesting to know what margin was noted as a higher average.

That's a number that doesn't indicate a great margin for error.

We have to content outselves with living with a wide margin of uncertainty.

The margin of support between the parties themselves is much narrower.

Some of you may say that my phone-book survey has a high margin of error.

Their worries about profit margin should not concern.

My comment was directed at someone's suggestion that online education has a higher margin.

Darwin often created indexes and abstracts of his own margin notes.

If the actual data match the forecast within the predicted margin of error, advocates win.

COLLAPSE

Collins

World English Dictionary

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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Word Origin & History

margin

mid-14c., "space between a block of text and the edge of a page," from L. margo (gen. marginis) "edge," from PIE *mereg- "edge, boundary" (see mark (1)). General sense of "boundary space" is from late 14c. Meaning "comfort allowance, cushion" is from 1851; margin of safety

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first recorded 1888. Stock market sense of "sum deposited with a broker to cover risk of loss" is from 1848. Related: Margins.

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Medical Dictionary

margin mar·gin (mär'jĭn)
n.

A border or edge, as of an organ.
A limit in a condition or process, beyond or below which something is no longer possible or acceptable.
An amount that is allowed but that is beyond what is needed.
A measure, quantity, or degree of difference.

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