noun
marginal utility
Economics term for the additional satisfaction gained from consuming one more unit of a good or service.
限界効用は、消費量が増えるにつれて逓減する傾向がある。
Marginal utility tends to diminish as consumption increases.
Compound of 限界 (limit, boundary) and 効用 (utility, usefulness), used as a translation of the English economics term 'marginal utility'.