1 A marginal political area or position in parliament can be won by only a small number of votes because support for the main parties is equally divided among the people voting:
The marginal Tory constituency was held by 2,200 votes.
2 a marginal political area or position in parliament:
The difference between the two bids was marginal.
5 not very important:
Manufacturing is only a marginal sector in the UK these days.
Their contribution to business strategy has been marginal.
6 producing just enough income to cover the costs of making and selling something:
7 a marginal seat (= area with one political representative) is one in which a politician has won by a small number of votes, so it is fairly likely to be won by another party when there is an election:
However, one does not want to see this legislation tip the scales against the interests of the in-betweens, or marginals.
He was not averse to working in the marginals.
Are we not in reality overproducing oil from the big fields when, a long time ago, a programme to accelerate and develop the marginals should have taken place?
Constant marginal cost is assumed for model simplification.
The sign of this correction factor is ambiguous and depends on the sign of the marginal risk effect of the input at hand.
An added twist in the model is a productivity shock, which changes the value of marginal product of water for farms.
The marginal price is the charge made for the last cubic meter of water used.
Such information should be made available to a large group of farmers at low marginal cost.
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