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diminishing returns

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from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.

  • noun plural A yield rate that after a certain point fails to increase proportionately to additional outlays of capital or investments of time and labor.

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  • noun idiomatic A condition in which additional inputs into an organization, project or process produce progressively fewer or lower-quality additional outputs, and may, in extreme cases, cause the total quantity or quality of outputs to decrease.

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