law of diminishing return

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• Law of Diminishing Marginal Returns — A law of economics stating that, as the number of new employees increases, the marginal product of an additional employee will at some point be less than the marginal product of the previous employee. Consider a factory that employs laborers to… …   Investment dictionary

• (the law of) diminishing returns — the principle that as expenditure or investment increases each further increase produces a proportionately smaller return. → diminish …   English new terms dictionary

• the law of diminishing returns — ► (the law of) diminishing returns the principle that as expenditure or investment increases each further increase produces a proportionately smaller return. Main Entry: ↑diminish …   English terms dictionary

• Diminishing returns — Economics …   Wikipedia

• Return — The change in the value of a portfolio over an evaluation period, including any distributions made from the portfolio during that period. The New York Times Financial Glossary * * * ▪ I. return re‧turn 1 [rɪˈtɜːn ǁ ɜːrn] verb 1. [transitive]… …   Financial and business terms

• return — The change in the value of a portfolio over an evaluation period, including any distributions made from the portfolio during that period. Bloomberg Financial Dictionary The annual return on an investment expressed as a percentage of the total… …   Financial and business terms

• return — {{Roman}}I.{{/Roman}} noun 1 coming/going back; giving sth back ADJECTIVE ▪ complete, full ▪ a full return to health ▪ gradual ▪ eventual ▪ …   Collocations dictionary

• diminishing returns — ► (the law of) diminishing returns the principle that as expenditure or investment increases each further increase produces a proportionately smaller return. Main Entry: ↑diminish …   English terms dictionary

• Law — /law/, n. 1. Andrew Bonar /bon euhr/, 1858 1923, English statesman, born in Canada: prime minister 1922 23. 2. John, 1671 1729, Scottish financier. 3. William, 1686 1761, English clergyman and devotional writer. * * * I Discipline and profession… …   Universalium

• law — law1 lawlike, adj. /law/, n. 1. the principles and regulations established in a community by some authority and applicable to its people, whether in the form of legislation or of custom and policies recognized and enforced by judicial decision. 2 …   Universalium

• Amdahl's law — Amdahl s law, also known as Amdahl s argument, [Rodgers 85, p.226] is named after computer architect Gene Amdahl, and is used to find the maximum expected improvement to an overall system when only part of the system is improved. It is often used …   Wikipedia