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around the margins

English translation: not central

02:07 Nov 17, 2006
English language (monolingual) [PRO]
Bus/Financial - Management / mergers
English term or phrase: around the margins
What are margins here... limits or just margins??

Problems that can be fixed through focused interventions. When you're operating in this realm, you're fixing problems around the margins - issues that are serious enough to demand attention, but not in the deal-breaking realm.
alen botica (X)
Local time: 22:08
Selected answer:not central
Explanation:
As the text says, not in the deal-breaking realm. A problem that would break a deal would be central. Problems around the margins are less important, "marginal", basically #2b here:
http://www.m-w.com/dictionary/marginal
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Margaret Schroeder
Mexico
Local time: 14:08
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4 +3not central
Margaret Schroeder
4margins/on the edges/periphery
Anna Maria Augustine (X)


  

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2 mins   confidence: Answerer confidence 4/5Answerer confidence 4/5 peer agreement (net): +3
not central


Explanation:
As the text says, not in the deal-breaking realm. A problem that would break a deal would be central. Problems around the margins are less important, "marginal", basically #2b here:
http://www.m-w.com/dictionary/marginal

Margaret Schroeder
Mexico
Local time: 14:08
Native speaker of: Native in EnglishEnglish
PRO pts in category: 4

Peer comments on this answer (and responses from the answerer)
agree  ErichEko ⟹⭐
5 hrs
agree  Robert Fox: Yes, less important problems - nothing to do with physical margins - as on a page
7 hrs
agree  Alfa Trans (X)
3 days 3 hrs
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3 mins   confidence: Answerer confidence 4/5Answerer confidence 4/5
margins/on the edges/periphery


Explanation:
Not the central most important issues

Anna Maria Augustine (X)
France
Local time: 22:08
Works in field
Native speaker of: Native in EnglishEnglish, Native in FrenchFrench
PRO pts in category: 10
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