It is the absconding propensity of a material.

The free rider problem is when the private marginal cost of taking action to protect the environment is greater than the private marginal benefit, but the social marginal cost is less than the social marginal benefit.

Adam Smith may have been right that the propensity to truck, barter, and exchange is innate to humans, but a panoply of non market institutions is needed to realize this propensity.

Those developments will buttress war fighting capabilities and enhance the propensity for use.

There is little doubt that evolution designed people to have a propensity to become sad after such situations.

She concluded by observing that poverty could accentuate women's vulnerability and therefore their propensity to commit criminal acts.

Some have collective shocks to the marginal utility of leisure.

The moral superiority of high marginal income taxes suddenly waned.

Chukchi Sea () is a marginal sea of the Arctic Ocean.

The East China Sea is a marginal sea east of China.

The Laptev Sea () is a marginal sea of the Arctic Ocean.

The Lazarev Sea is a marginal sea of the Southern Ocean.

The Islamists are neither a marginal political group nor a terrorist force.

The market price of anything is always equal to the marginal cost.

So, as austerity undermines growth, debt reduction will be marginal at best.

A powerful argument for reserving capital punishment for murders is marginal deterrence.

Countries vary widely in terms of household balance sheet damage, which clearly affects the propensity to save and hence the multiplier effect.

However, there's a lot of non political stuff happening that gets marginal attention.

For Microsoft, the problem is that the marginal cost of software is zero.

Yet, the participation of many developing countries in global trade has been marginal.

Most importantly, it is the source of livelihood for many economically marginal communities.

To put it in economics jargon, efficiency requires equating the marginal cost associated with allocation (both in acquiring information about the relative benefits of different projects and in monitoring investments) with the marginal benefits.

Even so, such marginal forces do not yet constitute a system for redressing grievances.

Whatever role Berlusconi chooses to play, it is unlikely to be a marginal one.

The Secretary General had recommended eliminating several reports, meetings, and activities of marginal usefulness.

How do we deal with our deepest differences, given the human propensity for conflict and the human genius at devising weapons of enormous destruction?

France s seemingly natural propensity to intervene is reinforced in this case by three key factors Sarkozy, Qaddafi, and the context of a wider Arab revolution.

IFRC was increasingly concerned about the propensity of Governments to see the establishment of camps as the standard solution to an influx of asylum seekers.

A third factor is that the violence has become a marginal issue even within Thailand.

More broadly, the ECB s marginal lending facility is an indirect means of monetizing sovereign debt.

To be sure, the precautionary and proactionary principles remain relatively marginal to mainstream political discourse.

The Norwegian Sea () is a marginal sea in the North Atlantic Ocean, northwest of Norway.

They calculated that 75 to 80 of economic growth did not come from increasing the capital output ratio at least not if the private marginal product of capital was taken as an indicator of the social marginal product.

As a result, the benefits associated with deficit financed boosts to household income are now being diminished by the propensity to save and rebuild net worth.

Fukuyama argues that patrimonialism defined as the natural human propensity to favor family and friends is the bane of the rule of law and accountable government.

Nuthatch refers to the propensity of some species to wedge a large insect or seed in a crack and hack at it with their strong bills.

Outdoor lighting has a marginal and sometimes even contradictory influence on crime and fear of crime.

Product bundling is most suitable for high volume and high margin (i.e., low marginal cost) products.

Under land management, adaptation options included afforestation, reforestation of marginal lands and protection of arable land.

In Guatemala, the largest economy, less than 3 of workers are unionized and their unions are marginal.

Many governments are giving in to higher marginal tax rates rather than overhauling and simplifying the system.

According to the Coase Conjecture, a monopolist selling a durable good must sell it at marginal cost.

In the context of explaining price, the marginal utility theory is not a normative theory of value.

And the higher marginal tax rates would reduce incentives to work and to invest, further impeding economic activity.

These are places where water is so scarce year after year that crop production is marginal at best.