Meaning & use
Margins
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The blank borders around the printed or written content on a page, or the difference between cost and selling price (plural of margin).
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Please leave one-inch margins on all sides of your essay.
The company's profit margins narrowed due to rising material costs.
A note on using this word
Also used figuratively to describe people or groups excluded from mainstream society, as in 'living on the margins.'
Words with a similar meaning
bordersedges
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Another way to use it
2. noun
The amount by which revenue from sales exceeds costs, expressed as a percentage.
The retailer operates on very thin margins.
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