submarginal
English edit
Etymology edit
Adjective edit
submarginal (comparative more submarginal, superlative most submarginal)
- Less than, or worse than, marginal. Not meeting even the minimum standard of quality.
- 1996, Staughton Lynd, "We are All Leaders": The Alternative Unionism of the Early 1930s:
- Nutpicking, along with chicken cleaning and rag sorting, constituted the very bottom of the submarginal industries in St. Louis in the 1930s, and it was in these industries that African American women found sporadic employment.
- (anatomy, zoology) Below a margin.
French edit
Adjective edit
submarginal (feminine submarginale, masculine plural submarginaux, feminine plural submarginales)
Further reading edit
- “submarginal”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.
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Pronunciation edit
Adjective edit
submarginal m or f (masculine and feminine plural submarginales)