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law of diminishing returns

law of diminishing returns noun: the tendency for a continuing effort toward a particular goal to decline in effectiveness after a certain amount of success has been achieved.

Noun

law of diminishing returns

  1. The tendency for a continuing effort toward a particular goal to decline in effectiveness after a certain amount of success has been achieved.
  2. A relationship between input and output, such that adding units of any one input (labour, capital etc.) to fixed amounts of the others will yield successively smaller increments of output.

Questions about law of diminishing returns

What does law of diminishing returns mean?
Law of diminishing returns means the tendency for a continuing effort toward a particular goal to decline in effectiveness after a certain amount of success has been achieved.
What part of speech is law of diminishing returns?
Law of diminishing returns is a noun.

Words near law of diminishing returns in the dictionary

  1. law of correspondence
  2. law of cosines
  3. law of demand
  4. Law of Demeter
  5. law of diminishing marginal utility
  6. law of diminishing returns
  7. law of double negation
  8. law of excluded middle
  9. law of Hobson-Jobson
  10. law of holes
  11. law of identity

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