marginal return
collocation in Englishmeaningsofmarginalandreturn
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marginal
adjective
uk/ˈmɑː.dʒɪ.nəl/us/ˈmɑːr.dʒɪ.nəl/
very small in amount ...
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return
noun
uk/rɪˈtɜːn/us/rɪˈtɝːn/
an occasion when someone goes or comes back to a place where they ...
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That is, themarginalreturnfrom holding stocks in future periods will be equalized across time and species.
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As the tax reduces the privatemarginalreturnto harvesting effort, users expend less effort than they would if sharing rules were absent.
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This decliningmarginalreturnof new ideas was perceived by the economists as a decline in the importance of the ideas themselves.
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The left-hand side of equation (4b) describes themarginalreturnto investing in a unit of private capital.
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The unequal distribution of water generates a highermarginalreturnto water in the downstream nation than upstream.
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Initial level of capital is calibrated to achieve targeted, long-term,marginalreturnon capital.
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In anticipation of the decline ofmarginalreturnon exploiting the rent, the state and individuals undertook a strategy of diversification to insure against the rent's inevitable decline.
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We might even hope to be able to make some assessment of themarginalreturnon new investment, which is crucial in making investment decisions.
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As a result, we reduce themarginalreturnto work.
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Once themarginalreturnon investment became negative, which would eventually happen, society would be greatly impoverished.
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In other words, themarginalreturnon the extra energy put in was negative; one was getting less crop from more energy.
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It is intolerable that those faced with the danger of amarginalreturnon their investment, even over a long period, should carry the services free.
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The spread of interests and the danger of amarginalreturnmean that we shall not get the necessary results unless we give the necessary encouragement.
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That should result into lesser and lesser marginal returns.
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The important premises here are that individual savings are convex with respect to income, whereas returns on education are subject to diminishing marginal returns.
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Equations (13d) and (13e) equate the net private marginal returns on private and public capital to the cost of borrowing, respectively.
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At the same time, there are potential consequences rarely considered by developmental psychologists that could collectively indicate "diminishing marginal returns" to the family system.
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Given small marginal returns to perceiving true color over achieving color constancy, however, the "optimal" receptor number may well be the number we have.
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That is, by changing the harvest profile, the forester may change the marginal returns from holding the stock as an asset.
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Returns to investment are positive but have decreasing marginal returns.
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