equate to

verb

equated to; equating to; equates to

: to be the same as or similar to (something) : to equal

Disagreement doesn't equate to disloyalty.

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This equates to the running cost at volume, not the cost of a deployment. — Navin Chaddha, Fortune, 16 Oct. 2026 In 2021, for example, 9% of chum bycatch came from western Alaska, which equated to more than 51,000 salmon, according to NOAA. — Annika Hammerschlag, Los Angeles Times, 13 Oct. 2026 That equates to about $2,000 in higher costs for the average American household. — Matt Egan, CNN Money, 13 Oct. 2026 The chip has two super-cores for short, bursty workloads and four efficiency cores for background tasks and sustained workloads, which Apple says equate to a 20% performance improvement. — Eric Zeman, PC Magazine, 12 Oct. 2026 See All Example Sentences for equate to

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