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Margin Difference Important Noun Amounts Number Votes Points

word margin
definition
noun
A margin is the difference between two amounts, especially the difference in the number of votes or points between the winner and the loser in an election or other contest .
They could end up with a 50-point winning margin.
The Sunday Times remains the brand leader by a huge margin.
The margin in favor was 280-to-153.
The margin of a written or printed page is the empty space at the side of the page.
She added her comments in the margin.
If there is a margin for something in a situation, there is some freedom to choose what to do or decide how to do it.
The money is collected in a straightforward way with little margin for error.
Courts and parliaments have a wide margin of discretion in enforcing convention rights.
Out in front, Clarke had built up such a sizeable safety margin that he eased the pace and started cruising.
The margin of a place or area is the extreme edge of it.
...the low coastal plain along the western margin.
These islands are on the margins of human habitation.
To be on the margins of a society, group, or activity means to be among the least typical or least important parts of it.
Students have played an important role in the past, but for the moment, they're on the margins.
...signs of the party's rapid retreat to the political margins.
inflections margins
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