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diminishing returns
[dih-min-ish-ing ri-turnz]
noun
any rate of profit, production, benefits, etc., that beyond a certain point fails to increase proportionately with added investment, effort, or skill.
Also called law of diminishing returns.Economics.the fact, often stated as a law or principle, that when any factor of production, as labor, is increased while other factors, as capital and land, are held constant in amount, the output per unit of the variable factor will eventually diminish.
diminishing returns
plural noun
progressively smaller rises in output resulting from the increased application of a variable input, such as labour, to a fixed quantity, as of capital or land
the increase in the average cost of production that may arise beyond a certain point as a result of increasing the overall scale of production
51Թ History and Origins
Origin of diminishing returns1
Example Sentences
I think we can safely say that he was unsuccessful at all but the donor part and even that eventually led to diminishing returns.
It is an interesting strategy, not least because I wonder at what point diminishing returns kick in when Labour is kicking out at its predecessor, when it's approaching the first anniversary of taking office itself.
"And this suggests that the growing development timelines and budgets that are fuelling these longer games have reached a point of diminishing returns," he says.
Despite claims of success, his sabre-rattling on trade could ultimately produce diminishing returns.
In contrast, households with a high school graduate earned 8% less today compared with those in 1980, reflecting diminishing returns of a diploma.
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