| margin | | |
| n. (shape) | 1. border, margin, perimeter | the boundary line or the area immediately inside the boundary. |
| ~ lip | either the outer margin or the inner margin of the aperture of a gastropod's shell. |
| ~ bound, boundary, edge | a line determining the limits of an area. |
| n. (attribute) | 2. margin | an amount beyond the minimum necessary.; "the margin of victory" |
| ~ amount | the relative magnitude of something with reference to a criterion.; "an adequate amount of food for four people" |
| ~ margin of error, margin of safety, safety margin | the margin required in order to insure safety.; "in engineering the margin of safety is the strength of the material minus the anticipated stress" |
| ~ narrow margin, slimness, narrowness | a small margin.; "the president was not humbled by his narrow margin of victory"; "the landslide he had in the electoral college obscured the narrowness of a victory based on just 43% of the popular vote" |
| n. (possession) | 3. margin, security deposit | the amount of collateral a customer deposits with a broker when borrowing from the broker to buy securities. |
| ~ down payment, deposit | a partial payment made at the time of purchase; the balance to be paid later. |
| n. (possession) | 4. gross profit, gross profit margin, margin | (finance) the net sales minus the cost of goods and services sold. |
| ~ corporate finance | the financial activities of corporation. |
| ~ earnings, net income, net profit, profit, profits, lucre, net | the excess of revenues over outlays in a given period of time (including depreciation and other non-cash expenses). |
| n. (communication) | 5. margin | the blank space that surrounds the text on a page.; "he jotted a note in the margin" |
| ~ page | one side of one leaf (of a book or magazine or newspaper or letter etc.) or the written or pictorial matter it contains. |
| ~ blank space, space, place | a blank area.; "write your name in the space provided" |
| n. (attribute) | 6. allowance, leeway, margin, tolerance | a permissible difference; allowing some freedom to move within limits. |
| ~ discrepancy, disagreement, divergence, variance | a difference between conflicting facts or claims or opinions.; "a growing divergence of opinion" |
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