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On the margin means looking at the next unit of something. For example, when considering business decisions, you might consider the marginal cost of an additional unit of production, or the marginal revenue. (Rather than the average revenue, for instance.)
A person wants an endless supply of everything but cannot have it.
the law of comparitive advantage
The law of comparative advantage.
Economics is not a specialized skill, rather, an area of study. One cannot economic something.
self discipline
It means that you rather have this than something else. Sorry if it is confusing... EXAMPLE : I like chocolate, but I perfer vanilla
"sort of" means not exactly but close. It could mean rather like something, or similar to it, or it could mean that someone rather likes someone or something, as in they are not certain about their feelings but they are mostly positive ones.
When you find something out from a different source rather than writing, for example word of mouth.
"its" is a possessive pronoun when something belongs to 'it'. for example: "this is my action figure. this is its hat" "is" is a passive verb: commenting on existence rather than action. For example: " it is hot" or "it is plastic"
Walton prefers glory and knowledge to wealth.
That means that, rather than using some poison, natural enemies are introduced - for example, diseases that attack certain species, birds that eat certain insects, etc.
Anything that you might measure in yards, can easily be measured in meters. For example, the length of a car, the distance to cross a street, etc. You would NOT use meters to measure something rather small like the length of a pencil.
If you repeat something three times (for example: I know! I know! I know!), you emphasize it more rather than just saying 'I know!'
You have no will to fight, live, or help yourself. An example would be a dog that got injured and just lays there. It does nothing at all to help itself, rather it waits for someone or something to come along and help it.
Aluminium oxide is an example of corrosion of advantage rather than disvantage
Aluminium oxide is an example of corrosion of advantage rather than disvantage