submarginal
/ˌsʌbˈmɑrdʒənəl/
adjective
- Below an acceptable or usual standard; not good enough.
- The company stopped selling the product due to submarginal quality.
- The restaurant received bad reviews because of its submarginal service.
- His submarginal test scores meant he had to retake the class.
- In economics, describing land or resources that are not profitable to use because they produce too little value.
- The mining company decided that the ore deposit was submarginal and not worth extracting.
- Farmers abandoned the submarginal land because it could not grow enough crops.
- Submarginal farmland is often left to return to forest.
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