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marginal
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marginal
1. Economics relating to goods or services produced and sold at the margin of profitability
2. Politics chiefly Brit and NZ of or designating a constituency in which elections tend to be won by small margins
3. Economics relating to a small change in something, such as total cost, revenue, or consumer satisfaction
(jargon)marginal - 1. Extremely small. "A marginal increase in core can decrease GC time drastically." In everyday terms, this means that it is a lot easier to clean off your desk if you have a spare place to put some of the junk while you sort through it.

2. Of extremely small merit. "This proposed new feature seems rather marginal to me."

3. Of extremely small probability of winning. "The power supply was rather marginal anyway; no wonder it fried."
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9781607411628 Living on the edge; the mythical, spiritual, and philosophical roots of social marginality.
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These are, in all three films, figures whose marginality is always already mediated by a public all too ready to see them as outsiders.
Representing Postmodern Marginality in Three Documentary Films by LeBlanc, Robert / CLCWeb: Comparative Literature and Culture
Now, however, after the "anthropological revolution" of the 1960s, in which human bonds tying one to others and to oneself were transformed into a bond fabricated by consumption and the industries of information and diversion, marginality has become conformism and exclusion, which creates a fertile soil for depression.
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