margins
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- 1Plural of margin.
The teacher asked us to leave wide margins on both sides of the page.
Rising costs squeezed the company's margins for three straight quarters.
Note
A regular plural that carries every meaning of margin with it: the blank edges of a page, the border of any flat surface, the outer edge of a group, a gap between scores, room for error, and profit. The plural is especially at home in business, where companies speak of thin or squeezed margins, and in the figurative phrase on the margins, for those at a group's edge.
margins is a form of margin
margin, noun: The blank space along the edge of a printed page, usually left empty but sometimes used for notes. Full entry
- Forms
- marginmargins plural
- Spelling
- margin → margins: add -s
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