Definitions for margin

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margin mar·gin

Spelling: [mahr-jin]

IPA: /ˈmɑr dʒɪn/

Margin is a 6 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 9 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 12 points.

You can make 137 anagrams from letters in margin (agimnr).

Definitions for margin

noun

1. the space around the printed or written matter on a page.
2. an amount allowed or available beyond what is actually necessary:
3. a limit in condition, capacity, etc., beyond or below which something ceases to exist, be desirable, or be possible:
4. a border or edge.
5. Philately. selvage (def 3).
6. Finance. security, as a percentage in money, deposited with a broker by a client as a provision against loss on transactions. the amount representing the customer's investment or equity in such an account.
7. the difference between the amount of a loan and the market value of the collateral pledged as security for it.
8. Commerce. the difference between the cost and the selling price.
9. an amount or degree of difference:
10. Economics. the point at which the return from economic activity barely covers the cost of production, and below which production is unprofitable.
11. Entomology. the border of an insect's wing.

verb (used with object)

1. to provide with a margin or border.
2. to furnish with marginal notes, as a document.
3. to enter in the margin, as of a book.
4. Finance. to deposit a margin upon.
5. Stock Exchange. to purchase (securities) on margin:

Origin of margin

1300-50; Middle English Latin margin- (stem of margō) border; akin to march²

Examples for margin

In the end, Shumlin led by a puny 2,434 votes, less than the 50 percent margin needed for victory under Vermont law.

There is a limit to the best man's experience; a margin of error in the best man's judgment.

In the margin of the register is written, “This was her funeral text.”

By a margin of 63 percent to 37 percent, Colorado voters rejected the “personhood” measure.

But the margin has it "of thy servant," which does not agree with the person of the verb.

That sounds pretty impressive, until you consider that, just two years earlier, in 2012, the margin was 44 percent.

He perused the papers earnestly, making pencil-marks on the margin here and there.

We went down to the margin, under the bank, and pursued our way along the stream.

We believe in Him by a landslide 74 percent to 26 percent margin.

Sixty-seven Republicans voted against it, a margin in line with estimates of many conservatives from earlier in the day.