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overmargin

overmargin noun: the amount by which something is bigger, stronger, or with greater capacity than the absolute minimum.

Noun

overmargin (plural overmargins)

  1. The amount by which something is bigger, stronger, or with greater capacity than the absolute minimum.
    • Breastbeams—wood, cast steel, angles and channels—are carefully designed, with a big overmargin of strength.1914, American Lumberman, page 99
    • Premiers stand up because they are correctly designed and made with an overmargin of safety.1923, The American Artisan and Hardware Record - Volume 86, page 23
  2. The upper rim or border of something.
    • The processes of sabkhaization imply an overmargin shallow biogenic marine carbonate sedimentation mixed with distal alluvial fan deposition followed by solution redeposition of the carbonate to sulfate and dolomite;1990, Egyptian Journal of Geology - Volume 34, Issues 1-2, page 172

Verb

overmargin (third-person singular simple present overmargins, present participle overmargining, simple past and past participle overmargined)

  1. To invest too much on margin, increasing risk and limiting operating capital.
    • Algorithms in current use differ in their ability to select a matching that does not overmargin a complicated position.1984, Stephen Figlewski, Margins and Market Integrity: Margin Setting for Stock Index Futures and Options
    • Finally, exchanges need to be wary of adverse selection — positions that are undermargined would be heavily used while those that are overmargined would be less popular.2010, Robert W. Kolb, Lessons from the Financial Crisis, →ISBN

Examples of overmargin in a sentence

  • From this result, M-G-M type can allow link loading of about 90%, which may be too large ordinarily, resulting in provision of an overmargin for traffic handling capacity.1975, Fujitsu Scientific & Technical Journal - Volumes 12-13, page 32:
  • Bulging with overconfidence, they load up their accounts and way overmargin themselves.2014, James Cordier, Michael Gross, The Complete Guide to Option Selling, →ISBN:

Forms of overmargin

Noun
pluralovermargins
Verb
third-person singular presentovermargins
present participleovermargining
past participleovermargined
pastovermargined

Origin of overmargin

From over- + margin.

Questions about overmargin

What does overmargin mean?
Overmargin means the amount by which something is bigger, stronger, or with greater capacity than the absolute minimum.
How do you use overmargin in a sentence?
From this result, M-G-M type can allow link loading of about 90%, which may be too large ordinarily, resulting in provision of an overmargin for traffic handling capacity.
What part of speech is overmargin?
Overmargin can be a noun or a verb.
What is the plural of overmargin?
The plural of overmargin is overmargins.

Words near overmargin in the dictionary

  1. overmaps
  2. overmarch
  3. overmarched
  4. overmarches
  5. overmarching
  6. overmargin
  7. overmargined
  8. overmargining
  9. overmargins
  10. overmarinated
  11. overmark

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