marginal contribution

collocation in English

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marginal
adjective
uk
/ˈmɑː.dʒɪ.nəl/us
/ˈmɑːr.dʒɪ.nəl/
very small in amount ...
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contribution
noun[C or U]
uk
/ˌkɒn.trɪˈbjuː.ʃən/us
/ˌkɑːn.trɪˈbjuː.ʃən/
something that you contribute or do to help produce or achieve something together with other people, or to help make ...
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(Definition ofmarginalandcontributionfrom theCambridge English Dictionary© Cambridge University Press)

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Finally, themarginalcontributionof each variable to the conditional probability of a fiscal consolidation being undertaken is fairly consistent across all three regressions.
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Other features than degree ofmarginalcontributionmust determine degree of membership in the relevant set.
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The methodological problems of isolating themarginalcontributionof an organization to performance and outcomes are significant.
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That is, a player's welfare is 'hismarginalcontributionto the coalition composed of his predecessors along the river' (p. 5).
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On the other hand, an increasing netmarginalcontributionto welfare from the stock unambiguously increases the optimal stock and the habitat.
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In these cases, each act belongs to the relevant set in virtue of a causal relation (other thanmarginalcontribution) to a specific harmful event.
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The first is that an act'smarginalcontributionto harmful/benefiting effects is the only thing that can matter.
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Marginalcontributionto an event is a matter of making a difference to the occurrence of that event.
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The sectors which account for large numbers of employees often make a much moremarginalcontributionto a nation's value-added figure.
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Or, the act is a member because it shares with the other acts some causal relation to the harmful/benefiting effect in question, other thanmarginalcontributionto it.
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In the overdetermination case, each is causally responsible for my death (or it is indeterminate which one is responsible) though neither makes anymarginalcontributionto it.
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To assume that membership in such a set can make an individual action wrong is to admit that individualmarginalcontributionis not the only thing that matters.
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It is rubbish to argue that removal of the ban will make anything but amarginalcontributionto the solution of the fodder problem.
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It will make only amarginalcontributionto solving the problem by playing around with standing charges.
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It is surely a sensible proposition that out of that amount somemarginalcontributionshould be made towards the cost of individual health care.
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It may be a contribution, if only amarginalcontribution, to the bad conditions on the river.
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Even so, themarginalcontributionof aid to development is still highly important.
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I consider that this system could make no more than amarginalcontributionto road congestion.
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Obviously, energy conservation, even allowing for the vast waste of resources that goes on at the moment, can make only amarginalcontribution.
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Such losses far outweigh themarginalcontributionof enterprise zones and the questionable contribution made by urban development corporations.
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