MARGINAL UTILITY

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does marginal utility mean? 

• MARGINAL UTILITY (noun)
  The noun MARGINAL UTILITY has 1 sense:

1. (economics) the amount that utility increases with an increase of one unit of an economic good or service

  Familiarity information: MARGINAL UTILITY used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• MARGINAL UTILITY (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

(economics) the amount that utility increases with an increase of one unit of an economic good or service

Classified under:

Nouns denoting quantities and units of measure

Hypernyms ("marginal utility" is a kind of...):

utility ((economics) a measure that is to be maximized in any situation involving choice)

Domain category:

economic science; economics; political economy (the branch of social science that deals with the production and distribution and consumption of goods and services and their management)