law of diminishing returns

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

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Questions about law of diminishing returns

What does law of diminishing returns mean?

law of diminishing returns means "a law affirming that to continue after a certain level of performance has been reached will result in a decline in effectiveness".

Is law of diminishing returns a common word?

law of diminishing returns is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.