Definition: 1. The boundary line or the area immediately inside the boundary. 2. A permissible difference; allowing some freedom to move within limits. 3. The amount of collateral a customer deposits with a broker when borrowing from the broker to buy securities. 4. (finance) the net sales minus the cost of goods and services sold. 5. The blank space that surrounds the text on a page. 6. A strip near the boundary of an object.
Use 'margin' in a sentence:
1. I put a mark in the margin to remind me to check the figure.
2. Profit margins have been slashed to the bone in an attempt to keep turnover moving.
3. For the past two years, our profit margin has been falling, even though we have continued to add employees.
4. They pass on their cost of borrowing and add it to their profit margin.
5. The survey has a margin of error of 2.5%.
6. Make a mark at the margin.
7. He won by a narrow margin.
8. When good students turn in an essay, they dream of their instructor returning it to them in exactly the same condition, save for a single word added in the margin of the final page: "Flawless."
9. He is on the margin of bare subsistence.
10. These islands are on the margins of human habitation.
11. Students have played an important role in the past, but for the moment, they're on the margins.
12. The group had a net profit margin of 30% last year.
13. She added her comments in the margin.
14. The poll has a margin of error of plus or minus 5 per cent.
15. This year's cotton production exceeds last year's by a big margin.
16. The money is collected in a straightforward way with little margin for error.
17. These charges can carry prison terms of up to five years, though there's a wide margin of discretion.
18. Out in front, Clarke had built up such a sizeable safety margin that he eased the pace and started cruising.
19. The firm had shaved profit margins.
20. The Sus scrofa is often found marauding in the swamp margin.
21. They had lost by a wide margin, but their supporters gave them a defiant, loyal ovation.
22. We won the vote by a huge margin.
23. She began rubbing out the pencilled marks in the margin.
24. A vicious price war between manufacturers has cut margins to the bone.
25. Pedro could have ensured a bigger margin of victory in the closing stages, but he allowed Arne Friedrich to dispossess him .
26. Words degraded to the margin have been justice, fairness, tolerance, proportionality and accountability.
27. Why make such a small margin?
28. The Sunday Times remains the brand leader by a huge margin.
29. We also apply a little bit of margin-right to each label.
30. In order to maintain profit margins health and safety regulations are often put to one side.
31. The margin increase was not entirely unexpected.
32. Digital sales yield a higher profit margin too.
33. He won by a narrow margin .
34. The average margin of error is around 3%.
35. They have a 5% margin of error. Look at this catalogue, John.
36. Explain how to calculate a weighted average contribution margin per unit.
37. When Republican write-ins were included, Johnson's margin of victory was only 330 votes.
38. You can individualize a document by adding comments in the margins.
39. Maybe you will put question marks in the margin when you don't understand something.
40. They could end up with a 50-point winning margin.
41. Female economists overwhelmingly disagree by a margin of 4-to-l.
42. Scientific inventions such as these have raised labour productivity by a big margin.
43. The margin of error was plus or minus three percentage points.
44. There are notes in the margin on every page.
45. The narrow gateway left me little margin for error as I reversed the car.
46. The margin in favor was 280-to-153.
47. She beat the other runners by a margin of ten seconds.
