noun

• The value gained from either consuming or producing one additional unit of a product or service.

  ‘the marginal value to him of an extra acre would be less than its price’

  More example sentences

  • ‘you can add smart people to a team to get increased output, although at decreasing marginal values’
  • ‘Expectations for use of Internet resources must be justified by added marginal value to the instructional activity.’
  • ‘Older women place a very high marginal value on their health.’
  • ‘The marginal value of the second sock is a matching pair of socks.’
  • ‘The marginal value of membership clearly was less than the fee increase for about 400 former members.’
  • ‘He showed that the use of money was determined by marginal value, just as the use of any other good.’