Overmargin
Definition, Meaning & Examples
Part of speech noun
Quick meaning: Overmargin is a noun meaning The amount by which something is bigger, stronger, or with greater capacity than the absolute minimum.
Meaning
The amount by which something is bigger, stronger, or with greater capacity than the absolute minimum.
More Meanings
- The upper rim or border of something.
- (finance) To invest too much on margin, increasing risk and limiting operating capital.
Example Sentences
Bulging with overconfidence, they load up their accounts and way overmargin themselves.
Premiers stand up because they are correctly designed and made with an overmargin of safety.
Breastbeams—wood, cast steel, angles and channels—are carefully designed, with a big overmargin of strength.
Algorithms in current use differ in their ability to select a matching that does not overmargin a complicated position.
Word Forms
- overmargins
- overmargining
- overmargined
Related Words
Related dictionary entries include excess, overage, overplus, overbalance, overlimit, overcall.
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