Meaning & use
margin
The blank space around the edge of a page, or a difference between two amounts.
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She wrote notes in the margin while reading the assigned chapter.
The team won the election by a narrow margin of just two hundred votes.
A note on using this word
In business, 'profit margin' refers to the percentage of revenue that remains after costs are subtracted.
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