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law of diminishing returns

Word Rarity Rare

Frequency: Zipf frequency 3.35 in modern English

Syllables
law of di-min-ish-ing re-turns
IPA
36
Scrabble Score
23
Letters
5
Syllables
16
Unique Chars

Meaning

noun

The tendency for a continuing effort toward a particular goal to decline in effectiveness after a certain amount of success has been achieved.

noun

A relationship between input and output, such that adding units of any one input (labour, capital etc.) to fixed amounts of the others will yield successively smaller increments of output.

Questions

What does law of diminishing returns mean?
The tendency for a continuing effort toward a particular goal to decline in effectiveness after a certain amount of success has been achieved.

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