marginal
Pronunciation Adjective
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Pronunciation Adjective
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.
- (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.
- 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
marginal (plural marginals)
- Something or somebody that is marginal.
- 1990, Elizabeth B. Lee, Sociology For People: A Caring Profession, page 110:
- […] discusses those who belong to the discipline's dominant cults, the mainliners, and their relations with the marginals and mavericks.
- (politics) A constituency won with a small margin.
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