marginalityn.
/ˌmɑːdʒᵻˈnalᵻti/, U.S. /ˌmɑrdʒəˈnælədi/ The quality or state of being marginal. In Economics: the quality of marginal factors in production or consumption (see marginal adj. 4b).
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society > trade and finance > management of money > income, revenue, or profit > profit > [noun] > limit below which sales no longer viable > as applied to profit or supply chain
marginality1908
society > authority > office > appointment to office > choosing or fact of being chosen for office > election of representative body by vote > [noun] > electoral contest > condition of being marginal
marginality1955
society > society and the community > social relations > lack of social communication or relations > separation or isolation > [noun] > belonging to two differing societies or cultures
marginality1961
1908 H. J. Davenport Value & Distribution 575 Marginality is a psychological attitude with reference to productive activity or to the productive employment of instruments.
1929 Pitman's Econ. Educator III. 1352/1 The exchange value of commodities determines their marginal utility and itself expresses their marginal cost. The notion of marginality in this way sheds light upon the economic conflict.
1951 M. S. Rix Investment Arithm. xii. 117 Priority percentages are also sometimes used to compare the gearing, or marginality, of one company's equity with another.
1955 Times 21 June 11/7 The region now has 28 Conservative to 15 Labour marginal seats. Conservatives also have the larger share of ‘marginality’ in the South and West.
1961 S. R. Herman in J. A. Fishman Readings Sociol. of Lang. (1968) 508 The choice of language at the various stages in the above case history reflects the passage from a position of marginality..to a position of adjustment as a member of Israel society retaining the elements of identity derived from socialization in another culture.
1964 R. D. Hopper in I. L. Horowitz New Sociol. 19 Marginality here means that, in pre-revolutionary societies, there is formed a group that is marginal to the structure of political power and social prestige.
1971 World Archaeol. 3 146 All of these facts combine to form a general picture of marginality in resources.
1974 R. Jessop Traditionalism, Conservatism & Brit. Polit. Culture ii. 42 A marginal [social] class..is more likely to become class-conscious than one that is relatively secure and unexploited. Marginality in turn can be due to adverse market conditions, to technological change, to political action, to bad luck, or some other factor.
1984 D. G. Bew in C. A. Heaton Introd. Industr. Chem. iv. 122 In order to avoid making such sales at a disastrously low price the concept of marginality and marginal cost must be developed.
1998 Isis 89 752/2 A drill officer's hopeless conclusion about the young Bohm, ‘There are some people who just can't march with others,’..[epitomized] his lifelong marginality.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, December 2000; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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