margin
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5.5
- noun
- /ˈmɑrdʒɪn/
- Specialized
- If you can sell it again, your profit margin should be even better the second time around.
- profit margin
- operating margin
- margin of 5 percent
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Watch on YouTubeThe business of packaging and logistics is a very thin margin business.
- The business of packaging and logistics is a very thin margin business.
- Like the margins on what you're doing are slim, right?
- You know, they make a high top line revenue, but a very low margin on profits.
- So Intel has been either on extremely thin margin for its GPU's or maybe negative margin.
- And then what is the gross margin potential of the product that I'm trying to sell?
- It's just all been reallocated into different things that produce better margins and more, you know, profit.
- Like are margins going to go down 'cause everybody's getting into it?
- So he is the highest priced service, which means higher profit margins, right?
- You take too long to go from the idea to selling enough products volume at margins high enough.
- Is it sales, is a margin and and cost?
- And I would imagine it's really high margin revenue.
- So I'm just curious like what kind of revenues and margins do like of the model business have?
Examples
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People are trying to make money and the margins are very, very thin.
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The business of packaging and logistics is a very thin margin business.
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And I would imagine it's really high margin revenue.
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Because cloud was a lower margin business than advertising.
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What else has that kind of profit margin?
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And then what is the gross margin potential of the product that I'm trying to sell?
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A collaboration with Taiwan would increase its profit margin and gain it entry into Asian markets.
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Such firms must ensure that profit margins do not fall too low by controlling costs and investments carefully.
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Forbes estimates that your profit margins are higher than ever.
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The profit margin for the new product is estimated to be around 30% of sales.
Synonyms
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3.6
Difference between the cost to make or buy something and its selling price shown as a percent
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4.9
Part of sales left after paying the cost to make the goods, shown as a percent
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4.1
The amount of money a company keeps from sales after paying for goods, shown as a percent of sales
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3.9
The percent of sales that remains as money after paying costs
Compounds
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42
3.6
Difference between the cost to make or buy something and its selling price shown as a percent
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6
4.9
Part of sales left after paying the cost to make the goods, shown as a percent
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8.2
A demand from a broker for more money or stocks to bring an investment account to the required level
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7.2
An account at a broker that lets you borrow money to buy stocks using those stocks as security
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4.1
The amount of money a company keeps from sales after paying for goods, shown as a percent of sales
- Formal
The extra money an insurance company keeps to show it can pay claims and debts
How High
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4.9
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5.5
Surface Forms
Etymology
Margin comes from the old root marg- meaning 'edge' or 'border', and in business it came to mean the space between cost and price. So a profit margin is the extra amount left between what you sell for and what it cost you.