marginal

[ˈmɑːrdʒɪnl]

Definition:
1. At or constituting a border or edge.
2. Of questionable or minimal quality.
3. Of a bare living gained by great labor.
4. Just barely adequate or within a lower limit.

Use 'marginal' in a sentence:

1. Copies of many of the classical texts used by sixteenth-century teachers, including marginal notes describing the oral lessons that were based on the texts, can be found in museums today.
2. The other alternatives are attractive in theory but in practice are either impractical or offer only marginal improvements.
3. Instead, Southern slaveholders misconstrued abolitionist views of the 1830s as mainstream rather than marginal Northern public opinion, and castigated Northerners generally for opposing slavery.
4. I don't want to call him marginal, but he's not a major character.
5. He tells a story of a socially marginal, disrupted family life.
6. Falls in marginal tax rates in America since the 1970s have made it all the more profitable to work longer.
7. The term is known as marginal revenue.
8. The role of the opposition party proved marginal.
9. The poor are forced to farm in more marginal lands higher up the mountains.
10. Inequality is not just about the top marginal tax rate but also about our children's access to food and the right to justice for all.
11. There's only a marginal difference between the two estimates.
12. Avoid the "Marginal Costs" mistake.
13. They did agree that social media only played a marginal role in the uprisings that convulsed the region.
14. Let's look at a marginal kind of surface.
15. For other, more marginal languages some measures should be taken.
16. Marginal Advantage Industry and Chinese Industry Development Strategy.
17. Try to View Library Aid Problem for Urban Marginal Knowledge Personnel.
18. The brownie and pineapple cheesecake have a marginal value, because their value is at the limit of their sign constraints.
19. But I never questioned his history of marginal employment again.
20. Costs are not necessarily assessed against the marginal benefits.
21. Marginal convenience in your layout code is not a necessity.
22. Butwhat is the marginal value curve?
23. Research on Full Cost of Coal from Perspective of Marginal Opportunity Cost.
24. The theory of marginal utility was applied to production as well as to consumption.
25. World within Square& About Marginal Design of Books.
26. Most advanced technologies and equipment for deepwater marginal field development().
27. Marginal analysis of best safety investment of coal enterprises.
28. Consequently it became a symbol of the marginal and the semi-legal.
29. The story will only be of marginal interest to our readers.
30. It will lower the private marginal product of capital.
31. The process of establishing a literary canon is seen by some as, in part, an attempt by certain scholars to make their own labors central and to relegate the work of others to marginal status.
32. Influence of Marginal Effect of Electric Field on Properties of Liquid Crystal Grating.
33. The syntactic structure of coordination and the significance of marginal data.
34. He won the most marginal seat by only two votes.
35. To call land "marginal" means it is not very good.
36. Yet it makes only marginal difference whether a student gets his or her education from a computer or a real live human if the content is irrelevant to the jobs market.
37. Zero marginal cost.
38. That slope is the marginal propensity to consume.
39. Marginal home loans were packaged into supposedly safe securities.
40. For low-paid workers, the marginal tax rate is at least 75%.
41. System Marginal Price Forecasting Based on Adaptive Dynamic Programming.
42. You can find the marginal tax brackets here.
43. To call something "marginal" means it is not very good.
44. The dangerous type chronic otitis media occurs with pars flaccida and marginal perforations.
45. The marginal illustration is very interesting.
46. But humans enjoyed all of these advantages for a full 2 million years during which they remained weak and marginal creature ．
47. High marginal tax rates may act as a disincentive to working longer hours.
48. The precariousness is further increased by self-experiences in the aforementioned marginal situation.
49. Knowledge Economy, Increasing Marginal Utility and New Business Rules.
50. The analysts applaud the cuts in marginal businesses, but insist the company must make deeper sacrifices.
51. There are marginal hyperemia and pain, itching, burning sensation as symptoms.
52. The neoclassical marginal productivity doctrine freats the factors of production like any commodity.
53. This is a marginal improvement on October.
54. This makes it harder for the marginal manager to gain employment.
55. The tribunals were established for the well-integrated members of society and not for marginal individuals.
56. Unfortunately, the adaptations that enable carnivorous plants to thrive in marginal habitats also make them exquisitely sensitive.