| 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" |
| excess | | |
| n. (attribute) | 1. excess, nimiety, surplus, surplusage | a quantity much larger than is needed. |
| ~ overmuch, overmuchness, superabundance, overabundance | a quantity that is more than what is appropriate.; "four-year-olds have an overabundance of energy"; "we received an inundation of email" |
| n. (attribute) | 2. excess, excessiveness, inordinateness | immoderation as a consequence of going beyond sufficient or permitted limits. |
| ~ immoderateness, immoderation | the quality of being excessive and lacking in moderation. |
| ~ extravagance, extravagancy | the quality of exceeding the appropriate limits of decorum or probability or truth.; "we were surprised by the extravagance of his description" |
| ~ exorbitance, outrageousness | excessive excess. |
| ~ overplus, plethora, superfluity, embarrassment | extreme excess.; "an embarrassment of riches" |
| n. (state) | 3. excess, overabundance, surfeit | the state of being more than full. |
| ~ fullness | the condition of being filled to capacity. |
| n. (act) | 4. excess, overindulgence | excessive indulgence.; "the child was spoiled by overindulgence" |
| ~ humoring, indulging, pampering, indulgence | the act of indulging or gratifying a desire. |
| adj. | 5. excess, extra, redundant, spare, supererogatory, superfluous, supernumerary, surplus | more than is needed, desired, or required.; "trying to lose excess weight"; "found some extra change lying on the dresser"; "yet another book on heraldry might be thought redundant"; "skills made redundant by technological advance"; "sleeping in the spare room"; "supernumerary ornamentation"; "it was supererogatory of her to gloat"; "delete superfluous (or unnecessary) words"; "extra ribs as well as other supernumerary internal parts"; "surplus cheese distributed to the needy" |
| ~ unnecessary, unneeded | not necessary. |
| extra | | |
| n. (person) | 1. extra, spear carrier, supernumerary | a minor actor in crowd scenes. |
| ~ actor, histrion, thespian, role player, player | a theatrical performer. |
| n. (communication) | 2. extra | an additional edition of a newspaper (usually to report a crisis). |
| ~ edition | an issue of a newspaper.; "he read it in yesterday's edition of the Times" |
| n. (artifact) | 3. duplicate, extra | something additional of the same kind.; "he always carried extras in case of an emergency" |
| ~ artefact, artifact | a man-made object taken as a whole. |
| adj. | 4. extra, special | added to a regular schedule.; "a special holiday flight"; "put on special buses for the big game" |
| ~ unscheduled | not scheduled or not on a regular schedule.; "an unscheduled meeting"; "the plane made an unscheduled stop at Gander for refueling" |
| adj. | 5. additional, extra | further or added.; "called for additional troops"; "need extra help"; "an extra pair of shoes" |
| ~ additive | characterized or produced by addition.; "an additive process" |
| adv. | 6. extra | unusually or exceptionally.; "an extra fast car" |
| leftover | | |
| n. (linkdef) | 1. leftover, remnant | a small part or portion that remains after the main part no longer exists. |
| ~ remainder, residual, residuum, rest, residue, balance | something left after other parts have been taken away.; "there was no remainder"; "he threw away the rest"; "he took what he wanted and I got the balance" |
| adj. | 2. left, left over, leftover, odd, remaining, unexpended | not used up.; "leftover meatloaf"; "she had a little money left over so she went to a movie"; "some odd dollars left"; "saved the remaining sandwiches for supper"; "unexpended provisions" |
| ~ unexhausted | not used up completely.; "an unexhausted well" |
| surplus | | |
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