Marginalize

Definition

margin /'mɑ:dʒÇn/ n ၁။ (က) စာမ်က္ႏွာေပၚရိွ ေဘးမ်ဥ္း ကြက္လပ္။ မာဂ်င္။ leave wide/narrow margins ❍ notes written in the margin. (ခ) အနားသတ္မ်ဥ္း။ နယ္နိမိတ္။ the margin of a lake/pool ❍ ( fig ) people living on the margins of society. ၂။ (usu sing ) (က) အသာရသည့္ ပမာဏ။ a narrow margin between the teams in second and third place (eg a small difference in points scored) ❍ He beat the other runners by a margin of ten seconds/by a wide margin. ❍ She won the seat by a margin of ten votes. (ခ) အမွားခံႏိုင္သည့္ ပမာဏ။ a good safety margin ❍ This is the most difficult hole on the course, with very little margin for error. ၃။ ( commerce ) အျမတ္အစြန္း။ a business operating on tight (ie small) margins ❍ a substantial/comfortable profit margin. ❏ marginal /-nl/ adj ၁။ စာမ်က္ႏွာေပၚရိွ ေဘးမ်ဥ္း ကြက္လပ္ တြင္ေရးသားေသာ။ မာဂ်င္ထဲ၌ ေရးသားေသာ။ marginal notes/comments. ၂။ မျဖစ္စေလာက္။ နည္းေသာ။ have a marginal effect on sth ❍ The difference between the two estimates is marginal. ၃။ အေရးမပါေသာ။ petty rivalry between marginal groups. ၄။ တြက္ေျခကိုက္ေလာက္ေအာင္ သီးႏွံမ်ား မျဖစ္ထြန္းေသာ(ေျမ)။ ၅။ ( politics esp Brit ) ဆႏၵမဲအေရအတြက္ အနည္းငယ္မွ်ျဖင့္သာ အႏိုင္ရ ေသာ။ ကပ္၍ႏိုင္ေသာ။ a marginal seat/constituency. n ကပ္၍ အႏိုင္ရႏိုင္ေသာ အမတ္ စသည္ေနရာ။ a Labour marginal. ❏ marginalize, -ise /'mɑ:dʒÇnǝlaÇz/ v ေဘးဖယ္ထားသည္။ ပထုတ္ထားသည္။ Western society has marginalized elderly people to a considerable extent. marginalization, -isation n [U] ❏ marginally /-nǝli/ adv မျဖစ္စေလာက္။ marginally better/ cheaper/ more risky ❍ Local schools were only marginally affected by the strike. ❏ margin of error n [C usu sing ] လက္ခံႏိုင္ေသာ အမွားပမာဏ။ The margin of error is 2%.

Examples

1. [in the margin] : I made a couple of notes in the margin.
2. [a wide/narrow/large/small margin] : Danes voted by a narrow margin (=a small amount) to keep their own currency.
3. Wide safety margins had been set.
4. There’s no margin for error – we have to win.
5. The Andes run along the western margin of South America.