Usually means: Decreased benefits from increased investment.
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  2. diminishing returns: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. diminishing returns: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
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  12. diminishing returns: Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English

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  3. Diminishing Returns: FACS Journalist's Guide to Economic Terms
  4. Diminishing returns: Deardorff's Glossary of International Economics
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Computing (2 matching dictionaries)
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Medicine (1 matching dictionary)
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Definitions from Wiktionary (diminishing returns)

noun:  (idiomatic) A condition in which additional inputs into an organization, project or process produce progressively fewer or lower-quality additional outputs, and may, in extreme cases, cause the total quantity or quality of outputs to decrease.

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