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LAW OF DIMINISHING RETURNS

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does law of diminishing returns mean? 

LAW OF DIMINISHING RETURNS (noun)
  The noun LAW OF DIMINISHING RETURNS has 1 sense:

1. a law affirming that to continue after a certain level of performance has been reached will result in a decline in effectivenessplay

  Familiarity information: LAW OF DIMINISHING RETURNS used as a noun is very rare.


 Dictionary entry details 


LAW OF DIMINISHING RETURNS (noun)


Sense 1

Meaning:

A law affirming that to continue after a certain level of performance has been reached will result in a decline in effectiveness

Classified under:

Nouns denoting cognitive processes and contents

Hypernyms ("law of diminishing returns" is a kind of...):

law; law of nature (a generalization that describes recurring facts or events in nature)


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