diminishing returns

GOOD ENOUGHwhen the profits or advantages you are getting from something stop increasing in relation to the effort you are making 收益递减，报酬递减

Examples from the Corpus

diminishing returns• Technologies that helped rescue developing countries from famine in the 1970s have reached the point of diminishing returns.• The problem with chocolates is that they operate on a loss curve of massively diminishing returns.• One was the idea of diminishing returns, applied in this case to income or wealth.• A law of diminishing returns applies to seed but not to pollen.• It is a process of diminishing returns, as Arthur Holmes showed mathematically nearly 30 years ago.• But it doesn't take a crystal ball to figure out the diminishing returns involved in planning programmes around such disposable performers.• They have created new forms of entertainment rather than providing variations on old themes that inevitably have diminishing returns over time.• For all of us there is also the law of diminishing returns that goes to work with each successive bite.

→ diminishing returns at diminish(1)

词汇	diminishing returns
释义	diminishing returns diminishing returns GOOD ENOUGHwhen the profits or advantages you are getting from something stop increasing in relation to the effort you are making 收益递减，报酬递减 Examples from the Corpus diminishing returns• Technologies that helped rescue developing countries from famine in the 1970s have reached the point of diminishing returns.• The problem with chocolates is that they operate on a loss curve of massively diminishing returns.• One was the idea of diminishing returns, applied in this case to income or wealth.• A law of diminishing returns applies to seed but not to pollen.• It is a process of diminishing returns, as Arthur Holmes showed mathematically nearly 30 years ago.• But it doesn't take a crystal ball to figure out the diminishing returns involved in planning programmes around such disposable performers.• They have created new forms of entertainment rather than providing variations on old themes that inevitably have diminishing returns over time.• For all of us there is also the law of diminishing returns that goes to work with each successive bite. → diminishing returns at diminish(1)
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