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[116]. Passage: Handloom, pottery and metalwork survive not as museum pieces but as livelihoods that adapt: weavers test new colours, potters supply hotels, and metalworkers repair as well as create. Their main threats are not lack of skill but middlemen who capture margins, unreliable raw material, and markets that reward machine copies over handmade variation. Support that works connects makers directly to buyers, protects designs from copying, ensures credit at fair rates, and teaches pricing and quality control. A craft dies when its makers cannot earn, however beautiful the object remains. The word 'margins' in the passage most nearly means:

1.
a decorative addition with no practical function.
2.
the difference between cost and selling price kept as profit
3.
a legal punishment imposed by a court.
4.
a sudden event that has no lasting effect.
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Option 2 : the difference between cost and selling price kept as profit

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सही उत्तर the difference between cost and selling price kept as profit है।

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In context the word carries the meaning in the correct option.

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[116]. Passage: Handloom, pottery and metalwork survive not as museum pieces but as livelihoods that adapt: weavers test new colours, potters supply hotels, and metalworkers repair as well as create. Their main threats are not lack of skill but middlemen who capture margins, unreliable raw material, and markets that reward machine copies over handmade variation. Support that works connects makers directly to buyers, protects designs from copying, ensures credit at fair rates, and teaches pricing and quality control. A craft dies when its makers cannot earn, however beautiful the object remains. The word 'margins' in the passage most nearly means:

1.
a decorative addition with no practical function.
2.
the difference between cost and selling price kept as profit
3.
a legal punishment imposed by a court.
4.
a sudden event that has no lasting effect.

Correct Answer: the difference between cost and selling price kept as profit

In context the word carries the meaning in the correct option.

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