Difference between Meager and Marginal

MEAGER vs MARGINAL: NOUN

In asteroid echinoderms, one of the series of thick plates round the margin of the arms and disk.
Something that is marginal.
In conchology, one of the outermost teeth on the radula of gastropods; one of the uncini.
In the ammonoid cephalopods, or ammonites, one of the small inflections which sometimes develop on the sides of the antisiphonal lobe of the sutures.
One of the bones which form the border of the carapace in turtles, except in the Trionychoidea, in which they are lacking: same as marginal plate. See cut under carapace, 1.
One that is considered to be at a lower or outer limit, as of social acceptability.
A constituency won with a small margin.

Poor, deficient or inferior in amount, quality or extent; paltry; scanty; inadequate; unsatisfying.
Having little flesh; lean; thin.
Less than a desirable amount; -- of items distributed from a larger supply.
Dry and harsh to the touch, as chalk.
Destitute of richness, fertility, strength, or the like; defective in quantity, or poor in quality; poor; barren; scanty in ideas; wanting strength of diction or affluence of imagery. Opposite of ample.
Destitue of, or having little, flesh; lean.
Having little flesh; lean.
Deficient in richness, fertility, or vigor; feeble.
Deficient in quantity, fullness, or extent; scanty.
Barely adequate
Deficient in amount or quality or extent

Of questionable or minimal quality
Producing at a rate that barely covers production costs
Of or pertaining to a margin.
Written or printed in the margin.
At the lower limit; barely sufficient.
Of, relating to, or located at or near a margin or edge; also figurative usages of location and margin (edge).
Determined by a small margin; having a salient characteristic determined by a small margin.
Of something or someone close to a lower limit or lower class
Relating to commodities thus manufactured and sold.
Barely within a lower standard or limit of quality.
Written or printed in the margin of a book.
Being adjacent geographically.
Of, relating to, located at, or constituting a margin, a border, or an edge.
At or constituting a border or edge
Of a bare living gained by great labor
Just barely adequate or within a lower limit
Relating to or located at the fringe of consciousness.

To make lean.
Lean; thin; having little flesh.
Without richness or fertility; barren: said of land.
Without moisture; dry and harsh: said of chalk, etc.
Without fullness, strength, substance, or value; deficient in quantity or quality; scanty; poor; mean.
Lenten; adapted to a fast. See maigre.
Synonyms Spare, emaciated, lank, gaunt.
2 and Tame, barren, bald, jejune, dull, prosing.

Pertaining to a margin; situated on or near the margin; specifically, written or printed in the margin of a page: as, a marginal note or gloss.

Modest, Hand to mouth, Scrimpy, Spare, Hardscrabble, Ungenerous, Bare, Exiguous, Marginal, Stingy, Miserable, Scanty, Meagre, Measly, Paltry

Negligible, Bare, Hardscrabble, Meagerly, Edge, Peripheral, Narrow, Unprofitable, Minimum, Borderline, Meagre, Fringy, Meager, Minimal, Fringe

Modest, Scrimpy, Hand to mouth, Spare, Hardscrabble, Ungenerous, Bare, Exiguous, Marginal, Stingy, Miserable, Scanty, Meagre, Measly, Paltry

Insignificant, Negligible, Bare, Hardscrabble, Edge, Peripheral, Narrow, Unprofitable, Minimum, Borderline, Meagre, Fringy, Meager, Minimal, Fringe

As a result, perfectly competitive firms maximize profits when marginal costs equal market price and marginal revenue.
The optimum price is that amount which will allow marginal revenues to equal marginal Oligopolistic Market.
Marginal are in the measurement units of and hence difficult to compare with other marginal changes.
It was assumed that farmers with marginal revenue exceeding marginal cost would demand additional milk quota.
The fundamental principle that guides financial decisions can be used: marginal benefit versus marginal cost.
Here consumption will be high, with a small marginal utility, compared to marginal damage.
Profit maximizing quantity is where marginal cost equals marginal revenue.
Abbreviations xxvii MIC marginal implementation cost MOMC marginal operating and.
Production occurs where marginal cost and marginal revenue intersect.
We can use the tools of marginal analysis to illustrate the marginal costs and the marginal benefits of reducing pollution.