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Margin

noun

The boundary line or the area immediately inside the boundary. Synonyms: border, perimeter.

An amount beyond the minimum necessary.

The amount of collateral a customer deposits with a broker when borrowing from the broker to buy securities. Synonym: security deposit.

(finance) the net sales minus the cost of goods and services sold. Synonyms: gross profit, gross profit margin.

The blank space that surrounds the text on a page.

A permissible difference; allowing some freedom to move within limits. Synonyms: allowance, leeway, tolerance.

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... does not dare to return upon that track. The forest path is too sombre, too solitary, now. By the margin of the dank lagoon, under the ghostly shadow of the cypresses, he might meet the ghost ...

— The Death Shot - A Story Retold • Mayne Reid

... left with a column of days over which there is a red numeral, as in the Codex Troano. Running back along the line of numerals in the middle division of Plates 42 and 41, the day column with which it is connected is found at the left margin of Plate 38. Unfortunately the red numeral over this column is obliterated, but can easily be restored. Starting with the first black numeral to the right of this, the entire line, which ends in the second column of the middle division of Plate 43 (representing the black ...

— Aids to the Study of the Maya Codices • Cyrus Thomas

... to Boardman's imagination. He lost the sense of its calamitous close in recounting the facts of his story at Campobello; he smiled and blushed and laughed in telling certain things; he described Miss Anderson and imitated her voice; he drew heads of some of the ladies on the margin of a newspaper, and the tears came into his eyes when he repeated the cruel words which Alice had used ...

— Henry James, Jr. • William Dean Howells

... Natural Laws which are found in the higher sphere, from the large territory actually embraced by them, and from their special prominence throughout the whole region, it may at least be answered that the margin left for them is small. But if the objection is pressed that it is contrary to the analogy, and unreasonable in itself, that there should not be new Laws for this higher sphere, the reply is obvious. Let these Laws be produced. If the spiritual nature, in inception, growth, and development, ...

— Natural Law in the Spiritual World • Henry Drummond

... the sea to cast up well defined boundaries of sand along its margin, is so great and persistent, that the inland waters are dammed up and suffered only to escape into the ocean by narrow avenues, where their rapid currents maintain a supremacy of power—albeit with ...

— The Continental Monthly, Vol. 3, No. 1 January 1863 - Devoted To Literature And National Policy • Various

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