Pronunciation
- (British) IPA: /ˈmɑːˌdʒɪn.əl/
marginal (not comparable)
- (uncomparable) Of, relating to, or located at or near a margin or edge; also figurative usages of location and margin (edge).
- The marginal area at the edge of the salt-marsh has its own plants.
- In recent years there has been an increase in violence against marginal groups.
- Written in the margin of a book.
- There were more marginal notes than text.
- 1999, R. I. Page, Introduction to English Runes, Boydell Press, page 198:
- The early pages had marginal notes most of which were lost when rats nibbled away the manuscript edges.
- (geography) Sharing a border; geographically adjacent.
- Monmouthshire is a Welsh county marginal to England.
- (comparable) Determined by a small margin; having a salient characteristic determined by a small margin.
- Of a value, or having a characteristic that is of a value, that is close to being unacceptable or leading to exclusion from a group or category.
- His writing ability was marginal at best.
- Having reviewed the test, there are two students below the required standard and three more who are marginal.
- The pilots lacked experience flying in marginal weather conditions.
- (of land) Barely productive.
- He farmed his marginal land with difficulty.
- (politics, chiefly, UK, Australia, NZ, of a constituency) Subject to a change in sitting member with only a small change in voting behaviour, this usually being inferred from the small winning margin of the previous election.
- In Bristol West, Labour had a majority of only 1,000, so the seat is considered highly marginal this time around.
- 2002, Andrew Geddes, Jonathan Tonge, Labour′s Second Landslide: The British General Election 2001, [http://books.google.com.au/books?id=yicN4gyNOCwC&pg=PA79&dq=%22more|most+marginal+%22+-intitle:%22%22+-inauthor:%22%22&hl=en&sa=X&ei=AEmoT8SEN66fmQXM38DhBA&redir_esc=y#v=onepage&q=%22more|most%20marginal%20%22%20-intitle%3A%22%22%20-inauthor%3A%22%22&f=false page 79],
- In ‘battleground’ seats with the Conservatives, Liberal Democrat vote shares increased most in the most marginal seats.
- 2007, Robert Waller, Byron Criddle, The Almanac of British Politics, [http://books.google.com.au/books?id=YnAmle9e7AMC&pg=PA58&dq=%22more|most+marginal+%22+-intitle:%22%22+-inauthor:%22%22&hl=en&sa=X&ei=TxWpT5j8AazFmQWr2czhBA&redir_esc=y#v=onepage&q=%22more|most%20marginal%20%22%20-intitle%3A%22%22%20-inauthor%3A%22%22&f=false page 58],
- In Outer London, Harrow East is now a more marginal Labour hold than Harrow West.
- 2010, Nick Economou, Zareh Ghazarian, Australian Politics For Dummies, [http://books.google.com.au/books?id=P7JPEyeUVroC&pg=PT160&dq=%22more|most+marginal+%22+-intitle:%22%22+-inauthor:%22%22&hl=en&sa=X&ei=AEmoT8SEN66fmQXM38DhBA&redir_esc=y#v=onepage&q=%22more|most%20marginal%20%22%20-intitle%3A%22%22%20-inauthor%3A%22%22&f=false unnumbered page],
- The pendulum lists the seats from least marginal to most marginal for the government on one side, and least marginal to most marginal for the opposition on the other side.
- Of a value, or having a characteristic that is of a value, that is close to being unacceptable or leading to exclusion from a group or category.
- (economics, uncomparable) Pertaining to changes resulting from a unit increase in production or consumption of a good.
- French: marginal, périphérique
- Portuguese: periférico, marginal
- Spanish: marginal
- French: adjacent, limitrophe, voisin
- Portuguese: fronteiriço, adjacente
- Spanish: fronterizo, adyacente
- French: pauvre
- Spanish: baldío
marginal (plural marginals)
- Something that is marginal#Adjective|marginal.
- (politics) A constituency won with a small margin.
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