Definition of Law of diminishing returns

1. Noun. A law affirming that to continue after a certain level of performance has been reached will result in a decline in effectiveness.

Generic synonyms: Law, Law Of Nature

Definition of Law of diminishing returns

1. Noun. The tendency for a continuing effort toward a particular goal to decline in effectiveness after a certain amount of success has been achieved. ¹

2. Noun. (economics) A relationship between input and output, such that adding units of any one input (labour, capital etc.) to fixed amounts of the others will yield successively smaller increments of output. ¹

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Lexicographical Neighbors of Law Of Diminishing Returns

law of chemical equilibrium
law of closure
law of common fate
law of conservation of energy
law of conservation of matter
law of constant numbers in ovulation
law of constant proportion
law of contiguity
law of continuation
law of contrary innervation
law of cosines
law of definite proportions
law of denervation
law of diminishing marginal utility
law of diminishing returns (current term)
law of double negation
law of effect
law of equal areas
law of equivalent proportions
law of excitation
law of excluded middle
law of gravitation
law of initial value
law of intestine
law of isochronism
law of large numbers
law of motion

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