| 单词 | law of increasing return |
| 释义 | > as lemmaslaw of increasing return(s) That increases; growing, augmenting, enlarging, etc.: see the verb. Esp. in law of increasing return(s): the observed fact that in certain manufactures and industries the expenditure of labour or capital up to a certain point produces a more than proportionate corresponding return. Cf. diminishing adj. 1b. ΘΚΠ the world > relative properties > quantity > increase in quantity, amount, or degree > [adjective] waxing1297 multiplyinga1400 augmentive1483 breeding1552 crescent1568 growingc1587 enhancinga1592 creasing1592 teeming1597 increasing1600 auctive1634 echinga1644 multiplicating1661 gliscent1669 enlarging1694 augmenting1745 swelling1854 the world > life > biology > biological processes > procreation or reproduction > [adjective] bearingOE genderinga1398 multiplyinga1400 fecundc1420 broodya1522 fruitful1526 breeding1552 procreant1588 procreative1598 increasing1600 broodious1602 prolifical1608 conceptiousa1616 plenteousa1616 conceptive1630 feracious1637 propagatory1647 prolific1650 proliferous1654 propagative1654 progenial1664 teemful1755 progenitive1769 breedy1824 proligerous1836 progenital1837 philoprogenitive1857 eugenesic1864 society > occupation and work > industry > manufacture or production > [noun] > law of production law of increasing return(s)1890 1600 W. Shakespeare Henry IV, Pt. 2 i. ii. 183 Haue you not..a decreasing leg, an increasing belly? View more context for this quotation a1676 M. Hale Primitive Originat. Mankind (1677) ii. ix. 208 Fishes are infinitely more numerous or increasing than Beasts or Birds. 1752 D. Hume Ess. & Treat. (1777) I. 49 The encreasing luxury of the nation. 1849 T. B. Macaulay Hist. Eng. II. viii. 484 A pier and a haven..insufficient for the increasing traffic. 1890 A. Marshall Princ. Econ. I. iv. xiii. 379 While the part which Nature plays in production conforms to the Law of Diminishing Return, the part which man plays conforms to the Law of Increasing Return. 1925 S. E. Thomas Elem. Econ. x. 114 The Law of Increasing Returns..states that the expansion of an industry, in which there is no dearth of the necessary agents of production, tends to be accompanied by increasing returns. < as lemmas |
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