law of diminishing returns

noun

Definitions

The tendency for a continuing effort toward a particular goal to decline in effectiveness…
The tendency for a continuing effort toward a particular goal to decline in effectiveness after a certain amount of success has been achieved.
A relationship between input and output, such that adding units of any one input (labour,…
A relationship between input and output, such that adding units of any one input (labour, capital etc.) to fixed amounts of the others will yield successively smaller increments of output.

No curated loop yet for law of diminishing returns. Loops are being traced one word at a time while the ingestion pipeline matures.

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