marginal
Definitions
General Science
- adjective situated in the spaces around a section of printed text
Accounting
- adjective hardly worth the money paid
Agriculture
- adjective referring to areas of land such as field edges or banks beside roads which are at the edge of cultivated land
- adjective referring to a plant which grows at the edge of two types of habitat
- adjective referring to land of poor quality which results from bad physical conditions such as poor soil, high rainfall or steep slopes, and where farming is often difficult
Economics
- adjective very small, with respect to a change to a variable which can have an effect on each unit or product sold
Politics
- adjective not very large
- noun a constituency where the sitting MP has a small majority
Publishing
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