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overmargin en · NOUN

Etymology

From over- + margin.

Meanings

  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:
    • 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:
  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:

Forms

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overmargins Number=Plur lexicographic

overmargin en · VERB

Etymology

From over- + margin.

Meanings

  1. To invest too much on margin, increasing risk and limiting operating capital.
    • 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:
    • 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:
    • 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

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overmargins Number=Sing, Person=3, Tense=Pres lexicographic
overmargined Tense=Past, VerbForm=Part lexicographic
overmargined Tense=Past lexicographic
overmargining Tense=Pres, VerbForm=Part lexicographic