| 单词 | marginal |
| 释义 | marginal marginal /; AmE / adjective
1 small and not having an important effect: There has been a marginal improvement in retail sales. The difference between the two estimates is marginal.
2 (Economics ) [only before noun] connected with a single change in the level of an activity: The company should increase the salary to the point where the marginal benefits equal the marginal cost. The marginal benefits of preventing pollution decrease as the level of pollution decreases. ⇨ MARGINAL COST, MARGINAL PRODUCTIVITY, MARGINAL REVENUE
3 (Economics ) that can hardly make enough money to cover the costs of production: The bigger oil companies can spend money on marginal oil development. Marginal companies have been forced to leave the industry. marginal farmland (= land that is very expensive to grow crops on)
4 not part of a main or an important group or system: They have decided to expand their marginal brands. The business has been left with only marginal workers (= for example, people who do not work regularly or all the time). |
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