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WordReference Random House Learner's Dictionary of American English © 2025
mar•gin /ˈmɑrdʒɪn/USA pronunciation   n. [countable]
  1. the blank space around the printed matter on a page:Leave a margin of one inch on each side of your essay.
  2. a border;
    edge:the margin of the forest; living on the margins of society.
  3. an amount allowed beyond what is necessary:no margin for error.
  4. an amount or degree of difference:to win by a margin of three votes.

WordReference Random House Unabridged Dictionary of American English © 2025
mar•gin  (märjin),USA pronunciation n. 
  1. the space around the printed or written matter on a page.
  2. an amount allowed or available beyond what is actually necessary:to allow a margin for error.
  3. a limit in condition, capacity, etc., beyond or below which something ceases to exist, be desirable, or be possible:the margin of endurance; the margin of sanity.
  4. a border or edge.
  5. Stamps[Philately.]selvage (def. 3).
  6. Business[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. Businessthe difference between the amount of a loan and the market value of the collateral pledged as security for it.
  8. Business[Com.]the difference between the cost and the selling price.
  9. Businessan amount or degree of difference:The measure passed by a margin of just three votes.
  10. Business[Econ.]the point at which the return from economic activity barely covers the cost of production, and below which production is unprofitable.
  11. Insects[Entomol.]the border of an insect's wing.

v.t. 
  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. Business[Finance.]to deposit a margin upon.
  5. Stock Exchange, Businessto purchase (securities) on margin:That stock was heavily margined during the last month.
  • Latin margin- (stem of margō) border; akin to march2
  • Middle English 1300–50
    • 3.See corresponding entry in Unabridged confine, bound.
    • 4.See corresponding entry in Unabridged rim, verge, brink. See edge. 
    • 4.See corresponding entry in Unabridged center.

Collins Concise English Dictionary © HarperCollins Publishers::
margin / ˈmɑːdʒɪn/, (archaic)margent / ˈmɑːdʒənt/
  1. an edge or rim, and the area immediately adjacent to it; border
  2. the blank space surrounding the text on a page
  3. a vertical line on a page, esp one on the left-hand side, delineating this space
  4. an additional amount or one beyond the minimum necessary: a margin of error
  5. a payment made in addition to a basic wage, esp for special skill or responsibility
  6. a bound or limit
  7. the amount by which one thing differs from another
  8. the profit on a transaction
  9. the minimum return below which an enterprise becomes unprofitable
  10. collateral deposited by a client with a broker as security
(transitive)
  1. to provide with a margin; border
  2. to deposit a margin upon
Etymology: 14th Century: from Latin margō border; related to march2, mark1
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