margin
pronunciation
How to pronounce margin in British English:
UK [ˈmɑːdʒɪn]
How to pronounce margin in American English:
US [ˈmɑːrdʒɪn]
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- Noun:
- the boundary line or the area immediately inside the boundary
- a permissible difference; allowing some freedom to move within limits
- the amount of collateral a customer deposits with a broker when borrowing from the broker to buy securities
- (finance) the net sales minus the cost of goods and services sold
- the blank space that surrounds the text on a page
- a strip near the boundary of an object
Word Origin
- margin
- margin: [14] Margin comes from margin-, the stem form of Latin margō ‘margin’. This appears to go back to the same ultimate source as English mark (which originally meant ‘boundary’). The now archaic synonym marge [15] was borrowed from the Latin word’s French descendant.=> march, mark
- margin (n.)
- mid-14c., "edge of a sea or lake;" late 14c., "space between a block of text and the edge of a page," from Latin marginem (nominative margo) "edge, brink, border, margin," from PIE *merg- "edge, border, boundary" (see mark (n.1)). General sense of "boundary space; rim or edge of anything" is from late 14c. Meaning "comfort allowance, cushion" is from 1851; margin of safety first recorded 1888. Stock market sense of "sum deposited with a broker to cover risk of loss" is from 1848. Related: Margins.
- margin (v.)
- c. 1600, "to furnish with marginal notes," from margin (n.). From 1715 as "to furnish with a margin."
Example
- 1. Energy companies will see margin compression in the second and third quarters .
- 2. He says he 's had a lot of inquiries from clients recently about margin lending .
- 3. Margin loans outstanding totaled nearly $ 409 billion at the end of april .
- 4. It 's no secret that our net margin is about 2 % now .
- 5. Look at the charts comparing zynga 's revenue and operating margin with linkedin .