| 单词 | diminishing returns |
| 释义 | diminishing returnsSEE SYNONYMS FOR diminishing returns ON THESAURUS.COM nounany rate of profit, production, benefits, etc., that beyond a certain point fails to increase proportionately with added investment, effort, or skill. Also called law of diminishing returns. Economics. the fact, often stated as a law or principle, that when any factor of production, as labor, is increased while other factors, as capital and land, are held constant in amount, the output per unit of the variable factor will eventually diminish. Origin of diminishing returnsFirst recorded in 1805–15 Words nearby diminishing returnsdimin., diminish, diminished, diminished responsibility, diminished seventh chord, diminishing returns, diminishing returns, law of, diminuendo, diminution, diminutive, dimissory Dictionary.com UnabridgedBased on the Random House Unabridged Dictionary, © Random House, Inc. 2020 British Dictionary definitions for diminishing returnsdiminishing returns pl n economicsprogressively smaller rises in output resulting from the increased application of a variable input, such as labour, to a fixed quantity, as of capital or land the increase in the average cost of production that may arise beyond a certain point as a result of increasing the overall scale of production Collins English Dictionary - Complete & Unabridged 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012 |
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