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Law of diminishing returns
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Law of diminishing returnsA decreasing amount of extra output is gained when extra units of a varying input are added to a fixed input.
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Output
The total value of the goods produced or services performed (by a person, a company, an industry, or a whole country).
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Law of diminishing marginal utility
Additional units added to a consumer's stock of a commodity give progressively less satisfaction.
Law of downward sloping demand
Demand generally decreases when prices increase.
Law of large numbers
The mean of a random sample approaches the mean (expected value) of the population as sample size increases.
Law of one price
An economic rule stating that a given security must have the same price no matter how the security is created.
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Launder
To process illegally-obtained money through more than one bank, in order to conceal its origin.
Laundered money
Deposit of funds that is sent through numerous accounts, one after another, in an attempt to conceal the original source of the money.
Laundering
The manipulation of money obtained in a wrongful manner, for example theft, so as to seem to have originated from a lawful source.
Law
The body of rules which is designed to ensure that the inhabitants of a Jurisdiction will live in harmony.
Law of diminishing marginal utility
Additional units added to a consumer's stock of a commodity give progressively less satisfaction.
Law of diminishing returns
Law of downward sloping demand
Demand generally decreases when prices increase.
Law of large numbers
The mean of a random sample approaches the mean (expected value) of the population as sample size increases.
Law of one price
An economic rule stating that a given security must have the same price no matter how the security is created.
Lawer
Anyone who practices the law as a profession.
Lay off
1) When a company eliminates jobs regardless of how good the employees' performance. 2) A risk reduction, made by investment bankers, that minimizes the potential downside associated with a commitment to purchase and sell a stock issue unsubscribed by stockholders holding rights.
RELATED TERMS--------------------------------------
Output
The total value of the goods produced or services performed (by a person, a company, an industry, or a whole country).
SIMILAR TERMS--------------------------------------
Law of diminishing marginal utility
Additional units added to a consumer's stock of a commodity give progressively less satisfaction.
Law of downward sloping demand
Demand generally decreases when prices increase.
Law of large numbers
The mean of a random sample approaches the mean (expected value) of the population as sample size increases.
Law of one price
An economic rule stating that a given security must have the same price no matter how the security is created.
PREVIOUS AND NEXT TERMS--------------------------------------
Launder
To process illegally-obtained money through more than one bank, in order to conceal its origin.
Laundered money
Deposit of funds that is sent through numerous accounts, one after another, in an attempt to conceal the original source of the money.
Laundering
The manipulation of money obtained in a wrongful manner, for example theft, so as to seem to have originated from a lawful source.
Law
The body of rules which is designed to ensure that the inhabitants of a Jurisdiction will live in harmony.
Law of diminishing marginal utility
Additional units added to a consumer's stock of a commodity give progressively less satisfaction.
Law of diminishing returns
Law of downward sloping demand
Demand generally decreases when prices increase.
Law of large numbers
The mean of a random sample approaches the mean (expected value) of the population as sample size increases.
Law of one price
An economic rule stating that a given security must have the same price no matter how the security is created.
Lawer
Anyone who practices the law as a profession.
Lay off
1) When a company eliminates jobs regardless of how good the employees' performance. 2) A risk reduction, made by investment bankers, that minimizes the potential downside associated with a commitment to purchase and sell a stock issue unsubscribed by stockholders holding rights.
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