marginal

a marginal criminal element.

a marginal offside decision.

The marginal illustration is very interesting.

states marginal to Canada.

He owns a small, marginal business.

the marginal strip of beach; a marginal issue that had no bearing on the election results.

marginal writing ability; eked out a marginal existence.

A rational decisionmaker takes an action if and only if the marginal benefit of the action exceeds the marginal cost.

it seems likely to make only a marginal difference.

water lilies and marginal aquatics.

There has been a marginal improvement in the firm's sales.

He won the most marginal seat by only two votes.

to act contrariwise would make him marginal to his occupational role.

The volume is there, it's true, but the profit is very, very marginal.

This is the law of diminishing marginal utility.

Not to mention three marginal by-elections.

The most common type is marginal zone lymphoma of mucosa-associated lymphoid tissue or MALT.

This makes it harder for the marginal manager to gain employment.

So technologies may become marginal, but they rarely go extinct.

He felt culturally marginal and this was compounded by his personal loneliness.

But I wouldn't necessarily say a greater profitability because the profit is very, very marginal.

Marginal mandibular branch, supplies the mandibular region.

A Iot of peopIe were considered marginal, ...