noun
COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES
a margin of error (= the degree to which a calculation might be wrong )
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We have to allow for a small margin of error in the calculations.
gross margin
profit margin
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ ADJECTIVE
big
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The supermarkets then found that they could charge bigger margins on goods that were peripheral to their core business, processed foods.
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They lost in the general elections by the two biggest margins in the post-war period.
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That kind of morale booster is infectious and they could well have won by a bigger margin .
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If so, Britain would be outpacing the continent by the biggest margin for more than two decades.
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Stewart slotted in well in his first full game and Liverpool should have won by a much bigger margin .
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Mr Bush would dearly like a congressional resolution of this sort, passed by a big margin after a short debate.
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That was just unbelievable and to win 6 &038; 5 in a fourball is a big margin .
comfortable
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But even there Dole won by a comfortable 12-point margin .
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He strolled home by a comfortable margin thanks to some good body work early on.
continental
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Except where subduction zones lie adjacent to mountain belts on continental margins , plate boundaries do not coincide with continental coastlines.
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Many continental margins are not separated by subduction zones from the divergent boundaries marked by mid-oceanic ridges.
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It is possible that a similar flexural effect is associated with great escarpments along passive continental margins .
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The sequence of continental-margin orogen development begins with the subduction of oceanic lithosphere at, or close to, a continental margin .
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The first sections of the converging continental margins to collide suffer the most intense deformation.
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The resulting orogen would be a modified continental margin type.
gross
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It is really an accounting problem, and a balance must be struck between channel expense, profit and gross margins .
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The gross margin was 20. 7 percent in the fourth quarter.
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A manufacturer using short channels is more likely to have high gross margins , but equally higher channel expenses.
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It blamed lower holiday sales, crimped gross margin , stormy weather and higher costs.
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These machines have a gross margin of 50 percent.
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But old habits die hard, and Apple has shown a proclivity to chase market share while hand-wringing over shrinking gross margins .
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The manufacturer using longer channels will have relatively lower gross margins , coupled with lower channel expenses.
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A gross margin of $ 62, 500 is anticipated on $ 250, 000 in sales.
high
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A manufacturer using short channels is more likely to have high gross margins , but equally higher channel expenses.
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The profit margin rose on productivity improvements and increased sales of higher-margin on-site industrial gas plants.
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But they need to specialise, be creative and target their marketing activities effectively, as well as offer other higher margins services too.
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The maker of high-margin switching products said it will post lower-than-expected earnings from the fourth quarter.
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Sales of the higher margin 6000 Series are expected generate an increasingly higher proportion of the company's revenues in fact.
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Smaller companies will pay a higher margin .
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The latter allows more focused advertising and distribution and probably higher margins .
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The possibility of a high gross profit margin . 6.
initial
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Instead, both buyer and seller pay an initial margin , and these payments are held by the clearing house.
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The initial margin on the ST3 contract is 750.
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There is a lower level of initial margin on straddle positions.
large
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The close score after 12 games confounds pre-match predictions that Kasparov would win this time by a large margin .
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The result was a 131-98 Boston blowout at the FleetCenter, the Celtics' largest victory margin of the season.
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In 1955/6 budgets were generally overspent and by a larger margin than in earlier years.
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Courier beat Stefan Edberg in the final, which failed by a large margin to live up to it's billing.
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By a large margin , the gathering predicted that Bush would be re-elected in a landslide.
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Many pilots undershoot or overshoot their chosen spot by large margins .
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Ronald Reagan received an even larger margin in 1984; but he had margins almost as big among whites elsewhere.
left
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Each time you press F4, the left margin will shift over another five spaces.
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The term justified means that the text lines up down both left and right margins , just like in a book.
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Instead, create this style by using Shift-Tab to release the left margin .
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Since the column that we moved originally started at the left margin , no tab codes preceded it.
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Press the underline character until it reaches the left margin .
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This sets a left margin at position 1 and a right margin at 132.
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The first column starts at the left margin .
low
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The manufacturer using longer channels will have relatively lower gross margins , coupled with lower channel expenses.
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Wild speculation, low margin requirements and sheer panic triggered the free fall that set off the Great Depression.
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Place the acetate film gently across the lower margin of the specimen where a pool of acetone will have collected.
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A lone distant figure walks down the road that bleeds across the lower margin of the photograph.
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This control has meant lower margins for retailers, and manufacturers being able to dictate the in-store location of their particular products.
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That distracts time and attention into sectors which typically offer lower profit margins than drugs.
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But as it's such a low-margin business, they're more likely to stretch things.
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For this they grow large amounts of fodder crops on fields in the main valleys or on the lower margins of the uplands.
narrow
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It thus provides lower cost loans by operating with narrower interest rate margins than those of domestic banking operations.
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Kennedy won the election by a narrow margin .
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Isn't this my own handwriting running sideways down the narrow margin ?
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While both developer subsidies passed, the narrow margin clearly indicates the voters of this valley are beginning to wise up.
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Surprise! the seventh firm won the tender by a narrow margin .
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We work on a very narrow margin .
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A month ago, the all-Union Supreme Soviet voted against discussing the issue by only the narrowest of margins .
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So Weinke took the Heisman by a narrow margin and Heupel is anything but a loser.
net
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Its 25% net margin is bettered in the computer industry only by Intel, the world's biggest micro-processor maker.
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The net profit margin would be 2.1 to 2.3 per cent.
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In the long term, he concedes, Microsoft's net margins will be nearer 15% than 25%.
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A net margin increase of over 50 cents a barrel contributed to this good short-term performance.
passive
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It is possible that a similar flexural effect is associated with great escarpments along passive continental margins .
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Clearly models of passive margin evolution must be able to account for the development of these upwarps.
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Such detachment models predict that two types of passive margin will be produced by continental rupture.
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A number of other passive margins , however, show no sign of such major volcanism.
right
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If the right margin is altered move the page number to keep the two in alignment, if so desired.
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Long quotations, for example, should be indented from both the left and right margins .
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It may, for instance, be better to leave type unjustified in the right margin .
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This moves both the right and left margins in five spaces at a time.
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The term justified means that the text lines up down both left and right margins , just like in a book.
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This sets a left margin at position 1 and a right margin at 132.
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The Wordwrap feature can, on some programs, be disabled to let the text overrun the right hand margin .
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You are then prompted for the position number for the new right margin .
significant
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Recent polls say if the election were held today, Clinton would beat Dole by a significant margin .
slim
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The assembly endorsed the new prime minister by the slimmest of margins .
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But through it all, the majestic wolf has maintained its grip on existence, albeit by some very slim margins .
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Even so Adenauer was only elected Chancellor by a slim margin - 202 votes out of 404.
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The Panthers edged the Barons by the slimmest of margins in a dual meet on Jan. 21.
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The result is a slim margin of profit.
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That will mean much slimmer margins .
small
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More importantly to Branson, it meant Virgin were on a far smaller margin of any profit.
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By a smaller margin , the audience said that Prince Charles should not become king.
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A similar resolution was approved by the House of Representatives in June, but by a much smaller margin .
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In size and significance, if not charm, Sydney has won out by a small margin .
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Yet after one subtracts the small margin of great judges, there is something wrong with the remaining lot of them.
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Such people may indeed be giving themselves some small margin of immunological protection.
wide
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Each volume is beautifully produced, on thick paper with wide margins and a general air of elegance.
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But voters are preferring other candidates to Gramm by wide margins .
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This beats even the great Bobby Fischer by a wide margin .
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The initiative passed by a wide margin , but initial court rulings have enjoined its enforcement.
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It allows for artists and historians to explore in the wider margins works and strategies neglected or dismissed by modernism.
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So far, its return has outpaced the Gfund and Ffunds by a wide margin .
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Articles for the press should be written with double spacing and wide margins .
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Leave wide margins on both sides of each page.
■ NOUN
operating
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Worried men Operating margins have increased to 30% or so, putting garbage up with pharmaceuticals in terms of profitability.
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But its operating margins collapsed, falling from 8.1% to 4.3%.
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Penguin's operating margin was just over 8%, compared with 6.7% in 1991.
plate
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The most important of these variables is probably the heating of the plate margin since this will affect its thickness and strength.
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The main types of convergent plate margin and their possible modes of development are summarized in Table 3.1.
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If this were not the case significant deformation would occur within plates rather than being concentrated along plate margins .
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There are three types of plate margin , two of which we have already come across.
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The latter two are simple destructive plate margin volcanoes, but the Plate Tectonic setting of Vesuvius is a bit complex.
point
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White southerners voted for Mr Bush by a 35-\#point margin .
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Last July Labour had a two point margin at 34 to 32 per cent.
profit
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But his concern for profit margins kept wage levels low and he was intensely suspicious of trade unionism.
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Francis noted that strong profit margins and a committed, rock-solid management team were the key elements for a successful start-up.
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In the fixed-commission mid-1960s, profit margins were about 25% on total revenue.
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Executives point to increased regulatory pressures as well as scrawny profit margins on underwriting new state and local government issues.
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That distracts time and attention into sectors which typically offer lower profit margins than drugs.
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His backup was cement, and he knew exactly what profit margin to expect on it.
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The result is that the unit price becomes even higher as publishers protect their desired profit margin .
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Beyond those, they cite the high costs of customer disaffection, which drives down both profit margins and market share.
safety
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Another effect of the flare is to wind up the blade speed which helps to give a greater safety margin .
■ VERB
expect
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Although he expects margins to keep on falling during the coming year, he does believe the rate of decline will slow.
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The company expects revenues and gross margins in the fourth quarter to be flat to slightly higher than the just-ended quarter.
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We also expect marketing margins to be weaker in the first quarter because of the effect on demand of the generally mild weather.
improve
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These cost reductions are improving our margins and profitability.
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When the business began to slow down, he decided that he would offer liquor to improve his profit margins .
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Aubourn Farming's Philip Wynn believes there's still much that can be done to improve the gross margin .
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Now, retailers are looking to better manage their inventories to improve profit margins , Doolittle said.
increase
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Company 2 has a much more rapidly declining experience curve and is increasing its margins .
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As more capital is raised, the cost increases at the margin , increasing the marginal cost in increments.
leave
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She takes a prehistoric triangle of chalk and leaves a margin for the seams.
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This moves both the right and left margins in five spaces at a time.
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That doesn't leave much margin for error.
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So, go for skeleton notes - and leave plenty of margins and space round your notes.
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You designed two uneven columns. the first column starts at the default left margin and is 20 characters wide.
maintain
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Dowding has held its rates, maintaining its gross margins , but inevitably lost some business.
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The Bruins also maintained a two-game margin over Arizona and Stanford, their opponent on Saturday.
operate
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Throughout her life she operated on the fruitful margin that arbitrarily separates the statutory from the voluntary body.
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Whatever the merits of such proposals, they would operate only at the margins of the costs that most families incur.
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The bank's operating margin was below the 20.8 per cent increase registered in September.
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Group operating margins exceeded 20 % for the first time in Emap's history.
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In such conditions the government operates only at the margin of social activity.
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Altman has always operated on the margins of the industry.
reduce
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These measures will also benefit the refining sector, once capacity is reduced and industry margins recover.
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The coaches want to call every play and reduce their margin for error.
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The same result may occur even if the tenant does not consciously reduce his profit margin .
squeeze
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Giant and inefficient marketing boards have had the opposite effect of their nominal purpose, and have further squeezed farmers' margins .
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Financial stocks dropped on concern that Treasury bonds yields are headed up, squeezing banks profit margins .
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Falling stock markets and a lack of merger activity have squeezed margins and profits in investment banks.
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But deflation is also squeezing corporate margins and making it harder to tackle the high levels of corporate and national debts.
vote
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If you look merely at voting margins , there is a dead heat.
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Cahill said 416, 000 of the targeted women did vote , creating the margin of victory for Sen.
win
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That kind of morale booster is infectious and they could well have won by a bigger margin .
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Labor was pleased, the protests were squelched and Clinton won by a hefty margin .
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Denver has trampled through its opponents, winning by a margin of nearly 18 points a game.
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The winning margin was 352 runs but the damage done to them can not be measured by mere numbers.
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A little later Hilary Homeyer beat the 17-year-old Becky Brewerton, and a winning margin was secured.
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That equalled the score at Nairn two years ago, which was a record winning margin for them.
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At the end I slowed my pace because the important thing is to win , not the margin you do it by.
write
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Excuses, wrote Goldberg in the margin of his typescript with a felt-tip pen, an end to excuses.
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It would also be helpful to write in the left-hand margin where you used the skills.
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Glass, wrote Goldberg in the margin , mirror of delay.
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You get feedback written on the margins on your page or typed on a separate piece of paper.
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He has also revealed notes written in the margins of Latin manuscripts by Gothic hands and then rubbed out by later owners.
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Read your story through carefully; each time you come across a transferable skill write it in the margin at the right.
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Long run, wrote Goldberg in the margin , wiping the sweat from his forehead with his sleeve, no meaning.
PHRASES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
a thin margin/majority etc
narrow victory/defeat/majority/margin etc
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Adjust the starting point so that you avoid a very narrow margin at the perimeter.
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Crowds gathered in central Lima last Sunday night to cheer his narrow victory over former president Alan Garcia.
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John F.. Kennedy that helped propel the handsome young Massachusetts Democrat to a narrow victory.
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On election night, however, the team squeaked out a narrow victory.
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Surprise! the seventh firm won the tender by a narrow margin.
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Their relatively late arrival in the quarter coupled with their costs and the narrow margins on the surprise Model 20 impacted earnings.
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Was Buzz Calkins' narrow victory over Tony Stewart enough to keep them interested?
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While both developer subsidies passed, the narrow margin clearly indicates the voters of this valley are beginning to wise up.
razor-thin victory/margin
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Years of price wars, for example, have created razor-thin margins in personal computers.
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
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an eight-goal margin of defeat
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She widened the margins so her essay would look longer.
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Someone had written a note in the left-hand margin .
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The program sets the margins automatically.
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There were notes pencilled in the margin .
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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By early 1986 margins had narrowed.
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Considerable margins of uncertainty are associated with the best-fit climate sensitivities identified in an analysis of this type.
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In size and significance, if not charm, Sydney has won out by a small margin .
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The margin of error for the study was plus or minus 5 percentage points.
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The desired margin size is a positive function of the volatility of futures prices.
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The poll, which showed Forbes leading Dole by a 31-22 percent margin , figured that 27 percent of independents would vote.
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The supermarkets then found that they could charge bigger margins on goods that were peripheral to their core business, processed foods.