Definition of Margin

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Margin

A border; edge; brink; verge; as, the margin of a river or lake.

Specifically: The part of a page at the edge left uncovered in writing or printing.

The difference between the cost and the selling price of an article.

Something allowed, or reserved, for that which can not be foreseen or known with certainty.

Collateral security deposited with a broker to secure him from loss on contracts entered into by him on behalf of his principial, as in the speculative buying and selling of stocks, wheat, etc.

To furnish with a margin.

To enter in the margin of a page.

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Margin Quotations

A broad margin of leisure is as beautiful in a man's life as in a book. Haste makes waste, no less in life than in housekeeping. Keep the time, observe the hours of the universe, not of the cars.
Henry David Thoreau

All experience is an arch wherethrough gleams that untravelled world whose margin fades for ever and for ever when I move.
Alfred Lord Tennyson

Will not a tiny speck very close to our vision blot out the glory of the world, and leave only a margin by which we see the blot? I know no speck so troublesome as self.
George Eliot

Be precise. A lack of precision is dangerous when the margin of error is small.
Donald Rumsfeld

A first-rate organizer is never in a hurry. He is never late. He always keeps up his sleeve a margin for the unexpected.
Arnold Bennett

Those of Manhattan are the brokers on Wall Street and they talk of people who went to the same colleges; those from Queens are margin clerks in the back offices and they speak of friends who live in the same neighborhood.
Jimmy Breslin

I was playing rugby and the other games English school children do, and there was an event in which races were run, and I won these by a considerable margin.
Roger Bannister

In the 1920s you could buy stocks on margin. You could put 10 percent down and borrow the rest against your stocks.
Ron Chernow

The fact is that surveys which media people openly admit to show that fewer than twelve percent of their customers believe they're doing a good job, while the average profit margin in television is in the neighborhood of eighty percent.
L. Neil Smith

Acting is like a high wire act. Your margin for error is very slim.
Christine Baranski

Margin Translations

margin in Dutch is kant, marge, rand
margin in French is marge
margin in German is begrenzen, Begrenzung, Gewinnmarge
margin in Italian is lembo
margin in Portuguese is margem
margin in Spanish is margen
margin in Swedish is marginal

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