diminishing return

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A very common economic principle, often used in plural 'diminishing returns', where the benefits gained are less than the energy or money invested.

diminishingADJECTIVE + NOUN

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return

Examples (10)

  • The company realized that hiring more staff was leading to diminishing returns in productivity.
  • After studying for eight hours straight, I started to experience diminishing returns.
  • We've reached the point of diminishing returns with our current ad campaign; increasing the budget isn't helping.
  • The farmer learned about the law of diminishing returns when extra fertilizer failed to increase his crop yield.
  • The coach warned the athlete about the dangers of overtraining and the inevitable diminishing returns.
  • Adding more programmers to a late software project often results in diminishing returns due to communication overhead.
  • At a certain point, any further investment in the project will only yield a diminishing return.
  • Economists argue that raising taxes beyond a certain level can lead to diminishing returns in government revenue.
  • It's a classic case of diminishing returns: the first hour of creative work is always the most productive.
  • If we continue to refine this one feature, we will soon hit a point of diminishing returns.