noun

margin

Translation

margin, allowance, leeway, profit

Please write your notes in the margin.

They won the election by a narrow margin.

We need a margin of safety for this project.

in the margin in the blank space at the side of a page Please write your notes in the margin.

by a ((adjective)) margin by a particular amount They won by a narrow margin.

a margin of ((sth.)) an extra amount of sth. We need a margin of safety.

Synonyms: edge, border, surplus; Antonyms: center, core

From Latin 'margo', meaning 'edge, border'.

Think of the margin on a page of a notebook – it's the edge or border.