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English
Etymology
From Middle English margyn, from Latin marginem (possibly via Old French margin), accusative of margō (“edge, brink, border, margin”). Doublet of marge and margo.
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Noun
margin (plural margins)
- (typography) The edge of the paper, typically left blank when printing but sometimes used for annotations etc.
- The edge or border of any flat surface.
1913, Robert Barr, chapter 4, in Lord Stranleigh Abroad[1]:Nothing could be more business-like than the construction of the stout dams, and nothing more gently rural than the limpid lakes, with the grand old forest trees marshalled round their margins like a veteran army that had marched down to drink, only to be stricken motionless at the water’s edge.
1992, Rudolf M[athias] Schuster, The Hepaticae and Anthocerotae of North America: East of the Hundredth Meridian, volume V, Chicago, Ill.: Field Museum of Natural History, →ISBN, page 7:The lobule margins, furthermore, are arched away from the lobe, with the consequence that (when fully inflated) the abaxial leaf surface forms the interior lining of the lobule.
- (figuratively) The edge defining inclusion in or exclusion from a set or group.
1999, Pierre François, Inlets of the Soul: Contemporary Fiction in English and the Myth of the Fall, page 186:As far as space is concerned, Mary Lamb finds herself at the farthest margin of society - among tramps - when the novel begins.
- A difference or ratio between results, characteristics, scores.
2012 April 15, Phil McNulty, “Tottenham 1-5 Chelsea”, in BBC[2], archived from the original on 22 April 2014:Chelsea will point to that victory margin as confirmation of their superiority - but Spurs will complain their hopes of turning the game around were damaged fatally by Atkinson's decision.
2017 March 9, James P. Pinkerton, “A Deus ex Machina for the Climate Change Problem”, in The American Conservative[3], archived from the original on 25 July 2021:in Kentucky, for example, Trump beat Hillary Clinton by a nearly two-to-one margin
- A permissible difference; allowing some freedom to move within limits.
- (finance) The yield or profit; the selling price minus the cost of production.
- (finance) Collateral security deposited with a broker, to compensate the broker in the event of loss in the speculative buying and selling of stocks, commodities, etc.
1848, William Armstrong, Stocks and Stock-Jobbing in Wall-Street:The purchaser then hands over this margin to the person with whom he hypothecates the Stock.
2017, Joe Duarte, Trading Options For Dummies, John Wiley & Sons, →ISBN, page 140:If you borrow from your broker via trading on margin, you need to add monthly margin interest charges to your trading costs as well.
- That which is ancillary; periphery.
This model merely nips at the margins.
- (botany) The shape of the edge of a leaf.
1878, George Sampson V. Wills, A manual of vegetable materia medica - Issue 359, page 67:Red Whortleberry leaves have a crenate margin.
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- → Cantonese: 孖展 (maa1 zin2)
- → Korean: 마진 (majin)
Translations
typography: edge of the paper that remains blank edge or border of any flat surface figuratively: edge defining inclusion in or exclusion from a set or group difference between results, characteristics finance: yield or profit
- Bulgarian: печа́лба (bg) f (pečálba), марж (bg) m (marž)
- Czech: marže f
- Finnish: katetuotto, voittomarginaali
- French: marge (fr) f
- German: Gewinnspanne f, Gewinnmarge f, Marge (de) f
- Hungarian: árrés (hu), haszonkulcs (hu), marzs
- Irish: corrlach m
- Japanese: 差金 (ja) (さきん, sakin)
- Korean: 차금(差金) (chageum), 마진 (ko) (majin)
- Latvian: marža f
- Lithuanian: marža f
- Polish: marża (pl) f
- Russian: при́быль (ru) f (príbylʹ), маржа́ (ru) f (maržá)
- Serbo-Croatian:
- Cyrillic: марги́на f
- Latin: margína (sh) f
- Slovene: dobiček m, marža f
- Spanish: margen (es) m
- Swedish: marginal (sv) c
- Turkish: kâr (tr)
- Ukrainian: ма́ржа f (márža)
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finance: collateral security deposited with a broker Verb
margin (third-person singular simple present margins, present participle margining, simple past and past participle margined)
- (transitive) To add a margin to; to furnish with a margin.
1869, Alfred Russel Wallace, The Malay Archipelago, volume II, London: Macmillan and Co., page 410:The scale-like feathers of the breast are margined with rich metallic blue-green, which colour entirely covers the throat and sides of the neck, as well as the long pointed plumes which spring from the sides of the breast, and extend nearly as far as the end of the wings.
- (transitive) To enter (notes etc.) into the margin.
- (transitive, finance) To trade (securities etc.) on margin (collateral).
2011, Richard Lehman, Lawrence G. McMillan, Options for Volatile Markets, John Wiley & Sons, →ISBN, page 90:This sounds easy, but bear in mind that margined portfolios decline faster than cash portfolios in a bear market.
Further reading
- “margin”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.
- William Dwight Whitney, Benjamin Eli Smith, editors (1895–1910), “margin”, in The Century Dictionary […], New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., →OCLC.
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Indonesian
Etymology
Borrowed from English margin, from Middle English margyn, from Latin marginem (possibly via Old French margin), accusative of margō (“edge, brink, border, margin”).
Pronunciation
Noun
margin (plural margin-margin)
- margin:
- edge
- Synonyms: batas, tepi
- a permissible difference; allowing some freedom to move within limits
- the yield or profit; the selling price minus the cost of production
- (finance) collateral security deposited with a broker, to compensate the broker in the event of loss in the speculative buying and selling of stocks, commodities, etc.
- the edge of the paper, typically left blank when printing but sometimes used for annotations etc.
- Synonym: pias
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Norwegian Bokmål
Etymology
From Latin margo.
Noun
margin m (definite singular marginen, indefinite plural marginer, definite plural marginene)
- a margin (most senses)
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Norwegian Nynorsk
Etymology
From Latin margo.
Noun
margin m (definite singular marginen, indefinite plural marginar, definite plural marginane)
- a margin (most senses)
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