Scrabble?! MARGIN

Definitions of MARGIN in various dictionaries:

noun - the boundary line or the area immediately inside the boundary

noun - an amount beyond the minimum necessary

noun - the amount of collateral a customer deposits with a broker when borrowing from the broker to buy securities

noun - (finance) the net sales minus the cost of goods and services sold

noun - the blank space that surrounds the text on a page

noun - a permissible difference

An edge and the area immediately adj acent to it; a border.

The blank space bordering the written or printed area on a page.

A limit in a condition or process, beyond or below which something is no longer possible or acceptable: the margin of reality; has crossed the margin of civilized behavior.

A measure, quantity, or degree of difference: a margin of 500 votes.

Economics.

The minimum return that an enterprise may earn and still pay for itself.

The difference between the cost and the selling price of securities or commodities.

The difference between the market value of collateral and the face value of a loan.

An amount in money, or represented by securities, deposited by a customer with a broker as a provision against loss on transactions made on account.

Botany.

To provide with a margin.

To be a margin to; border.

To inscribe or enter in the margin of a page.

Economics.

To add margin to: margin up a brokerage account.

To deposit margin for: margin a transaction.

To buy or hold (securities) by depositing or adding to a margin.

verb - to provide with a margin (a border)