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diminishing returns
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diminishing returns
the characteristic of any production system in which increases in variable inputs result in increasing reduction of total output. An indicator of when to stop making additional inputs to the system, when the input exceeds the additional output.
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It suffered somewhat from the law of diminishing returns over the course of its 10 series but by the end it was still funny.
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