Dictionary Entry
margin
margin is a 6-letter English word with 13 senses as noun and transitive verb in the JumbleFix dictionary. One common meaning is: A border; edge; brink; verge; as, the margin of a river or lake. Face value is 9 in Scrabble and 12 in Words With Friends. Use the entries below when you need a playable sense, a nearby word, or another arrangement of the same letters.
6 letters · Scrabble 9 · Words With Friends 12 · 13 senses
Definitions
- 1noun
A border; edge; brink; verge; as, the margin of a river or lake.
- 2noun
Specifically: The part of a page at the edge left uncovered in writing or printing.
- 3noun
The difference between the cost and the selling price of an article.
- 4noun
Something allowed, or reserved, for that which can not be foreseen or known with certainty.
- 5noun
Collateral security deposited with a broker to secure him from loss on contracts entered into by him on behalf of his principial, as in the speculative buying and selling of stocks, wheat, etc.
- 6transitive verb
To furnish with a margin.
- 7transitive verb
To enter in the margin of a page.
- 8noun
a permissible difference; allowing some freedom to move within limits
- 9noun
an amount beyond the minimum necessary
"the margin of victory"
- 10noun
the blank space that surrounds the text on a page
"he jotted a note in the margin"
- 11noun
(finance) the net sales minus the cost of goods and services sold
- 12noun
the amount of collateral a customer deposits with a broker when borrowing from the broker to buy securities
- 13noun
the boundary line or the area immediately inside the boundary
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