Difference between Marginal and Unprofitable

What is the difference between Marginal and Unprofitable?

Marginal as an adjective is of, relating to, or located at a margin or an edge while Unprofitable as an adjective is not making a profit.

Marginal

Part of speech: noun

Definition: Something that is marginal. Especially a constituency with a small winning margin.

Part of speech: adjective

Definition: of, relating to, or located at a margin or an edge geographically adjacent written in the margin of a book at the lower extent of a standard of land that is barely productive of an electoral district (such as a parliamentary constituency) where the winning margin was a small proportion of the total number of votes, so that only a small change in voting behaviour is necessary to alter the outcome of an election.

Example sentence: Keynesian modelling relies on marginal propensity to consume and marginal propensity to invest. The idea that if we give more money to the poor, they have a propensity to consume that's much higher than the wealthy, though I wish they would talk to my wife about that; she seems to have a propensity to consume.

Unprofitable

Part of speech: adjective

Definition: Not making a profit.

We hope you now know whether to use Marginal or Unprofitable in your sentence.

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