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diminishing returns

 
pronunciation:
dih mI nih shIng rih tuhrnz
part of speech: plural noun
definition: a proposition in economics that when the amount of one factor of production, such as labor, is increased past a certain point while the amounts of other factors, such as land or capital, are held constant, additional output will increase only at a progressively lower and lower rate.