An amount beyond the minimum necessary is called the margin. If you sell craft items, you need to build in a profit margin so that you actually make money on the sale. You'll go broke if you sell mittens for $10 that cost you $15 to make.
A border; edge; brink; verge;
Noun
a strip near the boundary of an object; "he jotted a note on the margin of the page"
Noun
a permissible difference; allowing some freedom to move within limits
Noun
the blank space that surrounds the text on a page
Noun
(finance) the net sales minus the cost of goods and services sold
Noun
the amount of collateral a customer deposits with a broker when borrowing from the broker to buy securities
Noun
the boundary line or the area immediately inside the boundary
n.
A border; edge; brink; verge; as, the margin of a river or
lake.
n.
Specifically: The part of a page at the edge left uncovered
in writing or printing.
n.
The difference between the cost and the selling price of an
article.
n.
Something allowed, or reserved, for that which can not be
foreseen or known with certainty.
n.
Collateral security deposited with a broker to secure him
from loss on contracts entered into by him on behalf of his principial,
as in the speculative buying and selling of stocks, wheat, etc.
v. t.
To furnish with a margin.
v. t.
To enter in the margin of a page.
Margin
Margin
A border; edge; brink; verge;
To furnish with a margin.
Usage Examples
All experience is an arch wherethrough gleams that untravelled world whose margin fades for ever and for ever when I move.
I forget what the relevant American rate is, but I can tell you that our goal is to have a combined federal-provincial corporate tax rate of no more than 25 percent. We're on target to do that by 2012. We will have significantly - by a significant margin the lowest corporate tax rates in the G-7, and that's our - our government's objective.
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Other Usage ExamplesA broad margin of leisure is as beautiful in a man's life as in a book. Haste makes waste, no less in life than in housekeeping. Keep the time, observe the hours of the universe, not of the cars.
It is impossible for any number which is a power greater than the second to be written as a sum of two like powers. I have a truly marvelous demonstration of this proposition which this margin is too narrow to contain.
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