| 单词 | law of diminishing returns |
| 释义 | law of diminishing returns noun[S] ukus(alsolaw of marginal returns)ECONOMICS theprinciplethat after acertainpointmorework,investment, etc.producessmallerandsmallerimprovementsorresults: None of themanagerscouldsupervisemore than 30workersbefore thelawofdiminishingreturnstookeffect. Examplesoflaw of diminishing returnslaw of diminishing returns The reason is that the utility of twenty sandwiches is not twenty times the utility of one sandwich, by thelawofdiminishingreturns. From Wikipedia  This example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license.After a certain point, more money hits thelawofdiminishingreturns. From Wikipedia This example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license.Thelawofdiminishingreturnsis a fundamental principle of economics. From Wikipedia This example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license.But the large task of editing this volume must have been subject to alawofdiminishingreturns. From theCambridge English Corpus We have not, so far, tried such multi-version approaches, and our gut feel is that thelawofdiminishingreturnswill apply to such approaches. From theCambridge English Corpus Application of thelawofdiminishingreturnsto describing the relationship between metabolizable energy intake and growth rate in broilers. From theCambridge English Corpus In practice, however, the 'lawofdiminishingreturns' leads to the costs of additional recruits exceeding the income gained. From theCambridge English Corpus In a previous study, we showed that decision makers can be more sensible to the "principle of caution" than to thelawofdiminishingreturns(30). From theCambridge English Corpus The effectiveness of the ranking scheme yields alawofdiminishingreturns: the payoff of finding additional category members steadily decreases as you walk down the list. From theCambridge English Corpus Sometimes a small amount of the variable can do a great deal of work but then further increments matter little as thelawofdiminishingreturnssets in. From theCambridge English Corpus These examples are from corpora and from sources on the web. Any opinions in the examples do not represent the opinion of the Cambridge Dictionary editors or of Cambridge University Press or its licensors. |
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