marginal
IPA: mˈɑrdʒʌnʌɫ
noun
- Something or somebody that is marginal.
- (politics) A constituency won with a small margin.
adjective
- (not comparable) Of, relating to, or located at or near a margin or edge; also figurative usages of location and margin (edge).
- Written in the margin of a book.
- (geography) Sharing a border; geographically adjacent.
- (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.
- (of land) Barely productive.
- (politics, chiefly UK, Australia, New Zealand, 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.
- (economics, not comparable) Pertaining to changes resulting from a unit increase in production or consumption of a good.
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