marginal profit

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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profit
noun
uk
/ˈprɒf.ɪt/us
/ˈprɑː.fɪt/
money that is earned in trade or business after paying the costs of producing and selling goods ...
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(Definition ofmarginalandprofitfrom theCambridge English Dictionary© Cambridge University Press)

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Note also thatmarginalprofitattributable to extraction, and the difference in discountedmarginalprofit, can be less than zero.
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The rule postulates that under perfect competition themarginalprofitfrom the extracted gold will equate the user costs of the resource.
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Spatial variation in current baseflow allows estimation of drought mitigation values as themarginalprofitaccruing to agricultural households.
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For the typical household, the estimatedmarginalprofitis positive, validating the central hypothesis that baseflow makes positive contributions to agricultural profits.
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Consequently, if forest stock effect is neglected, themarginalprofitwill equate only the user cost of the gold stock and result in overextraction.
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The future harvest of the lower-quality species is reduced in cases 1 and 2 because the tax will increase marginal harvest costs (or decrease marginal revenue) and reducemarginalprofit.
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By exploiting the spatial variation in current baseflow, the value of the drought mitigation service can be measured as themarginalprofitaccruing to agricultural households in the affected watersheds.
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The smaller villagelevel trader deals in few animals and makesmarginalprofit, while the bigger trader deals with several village traders and makes a high aggregate profit.
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That has meant that it has sometimes made a loss or only amarginalprofit.
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Our particular problem is that the air services to the northern isles operate on amarginalprofit.
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I should like to know what the averagemarginalprofitis in this figure.
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If he takes the higher price, through no doing of his own, he can make an abnormalmarginalprofit.
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If they have that source of oil, it is themarginalprofitat the top which will determine where they go to explore.
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It would be only amarginalprofit.
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At the output level at which marginal revenue equals marginal cost,marginalprofitis zero and this quantity is the one that maximizes profit.
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At the point wheremarginalprofitreaches zero, further increases in production of the good stop.
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For these reasons, when capital stock of an economy expands, entrepreneurs will only be able to use it at a lowermarginalprofitratio.
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Analogously, the producer compares marginal revenue (identical to price for the perfect competitor) against the marginal cost of a good, with "marginalprofit" the difference.
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Under the marginal approach to profit maximization, to maximize profits, a firm should continue to produce a good or service untilmarginalprofitis zero.
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