widen margins

基本解释

If business was able to base its prices on replacement costs, margins would widen in inflationary periods.
如果一个行业能够根据重置成本定价，那么在通胀时期利润率会提高。
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He studied every product, its customers and its pricing, and found a way to finally widen profit margins on many products.
他研究了每件产品、对应客户群以及定价，并找出方法最终扩大了许多产品的利润空间。
He passes on part of the savings to his customers, while watching his margins widen, and plows the profits back into building more stores.
他把节省的部份成本转移给客户，获利增加不份又再投资而成立更多的店面。
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On the bright side, the company plans to hike the menu prices in the second half of the year which could help reverse this trend and widen the margins.
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Private investment should be further stimulated when the fear of future yen appreciation declines, and the constraint on new bank-lending diminishes as bank profit-margins widen.
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The company has reported double-digit profit growth every quarter for two and a half years now, and it just raised guidance for full-year earnings because it expects profit margins to widen further.
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