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Meanings of margin of safety in English

Difference between the intrinsic value of a financial asset and its market price.

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Examples for "safety margin"
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It's only fifteen thousand kilometres away; we would have a twenty-second safety margin.
The Reality Dysfunction
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Moreover, sufficient safety margin could be obtained for hepatic tumor ablation.
Pubmed
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A hundred kilometres was an adequate safety margin, Norton had decided.
Rendezvous with Rama
4
It's point six gee down there in Rama, and I want a safety margin.
The Complete Rama Omnibus
5
A pseudo-capsule limiting the tumor should not be considered as a sufficient safety margin.
Pubmed
1
The company does not report on a global aggregate margin of error.
Reuters
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The margin of error is higher for the gender grouping, Mason-Dixon said.
Reuters
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The margin of error reflects the lack of long-term and wide-ranging data.
The Guardian
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The overall margin of error was plus or minus 2 percentage points.
Reuters
5
There is no mention of the margin of error in that survey.
The Irish Times
Usage of margin of safety in English
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And of course one must always have an enormous margin of safety.
Brave New World
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They want to see just how much margin of safety there is.
Tom Swift and His Giant Cannon; Or, The Longest Shots on Record
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You may call that shaving too close the margin of safety.
The Flying U's Last Stand
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I have a margin of safety equal to fifty per cent.
Tom Swift and His Giant Cannon; Or, The Longest Shots on Record
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I must have a margin of safety-besides ,howcould I do anything else?
The Green Rust
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In some countries, stocks offer a margin of safety in the form of dividends.
Reuters
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That lets us work with a greater margin of safety.
Paul of dune
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Halve that for a margin of safety, call it ninety seconds, beginning to end.
Jack Reacher 01 - Killing Floor
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Maintain a cash reserve Give yourself a margin of safety.
The Irish Times
10
I increased the margin of safety on this muffler, too.
Tom Swift and His Air Scout; Or, Uncle Sam's Mastery of the Sky
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As an extra margin of safety, crumbs were held in check by an edible coating.
Packing for mars: the curious science of life in the void
12
The margin of safety was not more than a foot, but the child was saved.
The Money Master, Volume 3.
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The margin of safety was not as broad as he had reckoned, but it existed.
The Riverman
14
I held my breath, as moment by moment we cut down the margin of safety.
The Best Short Stories of 1921, and the Yearbook of the American...
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But the Happy family did not worry over that-seeingthere was a margin of safety.
The Flying U's Last Stand
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Our margin of safety was being cut down daily.
The Yeoman Adventurer