equity

noun

ˈe-kwə-tē How to pronounce equity (audio)
Definition of equitynext
1
as in neutrality
lack of favoritism toward one side or another the judge considered both sides of the argument with equity

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2
as in justice
the practice of giving to others what is their due basic to the notion of equity is the principle that all people are of equal standing in the eyes of the law

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Recent Examples of equity That legislation restricts diversity, equity, and inclusion initiatives in public schools. — Erin Jones, CBS News, 16 Oct. 2026 The statement skirted the charges in ZCCM-IH’s September letter, which accused IRH — part of Sheikh Tahnoon bin Zayed’s International Holding Company — of failing to provide equity funding and taking on unapproved debt. — semafor.com, 16 Oct. 2026 Optimizing Your Capital Stack EB-5 financing could occupy several positions in a traditional real estate capital stack and is commonly structured as mezzanine debt or preferred equity. — Jill Jones, Forbes.com, 16 Oct. 2026 The move, orchestrated by Everett to satisfy the demands of the company’s top-dollar backers, cheats Michael out of his stock options and equity in the company. — Senior Television, Los Angeles Times, 16 Oct. 2026 See All Example Sentences for equity
Recent Examples of Synonyms for equity
  1. neutrality
  2. justice
  3. objectivity
  4. right
  5. neutralism
  6. objectiveness
Noun
  • Fox News Digital asked Martin whether that level of support undermined Ireland's neutrality.
    — Michael Dorgan, FOXNews.com, 6 Oct. 2026
  • This initiative is a key step toward reaching full carbon neutrality across its vehicles, factories, and supply chain no later than 2050.
    — Mrigakshi Dixit, Interesting Engineering, 5 Oct. 2026
Definition of neutrality
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  • Black men are imprisoned at more than five times the rate of white men, and a lot of commentators move straight from that number to the conclusion that the criminal justice system is racist.
    — Arkansas Online, Arkansas Online, 16 Oct. 2026
  • The company agrees with skeptics like the NFL that justices must eventually opine on whether states and tribes should regulate its sports event contracts as sports bets, a Supreme Court litigator working with Kalshi told Semafor.
    — Eleanor Mueller, semafor.com, 16 Oct. 2026
Definition of justice
Noun
  • An algorithm trained on incomplete or unrepresentative data can reproduce inequities already present in healthcare, except now those decisions arrive wrapped in the appearance of objectivity.
    — Paula Ferrada, Forbes.com, 5 Oct. 2026
  • But the murkiness doesn’t last long in a production that achieves an admirable balance between objectivity and emotion, abstraction and representation.
    — Theater Critic, Los Angeles Times, 18 Sep. 2026
Definition of objectivity
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  • Many of his domestic critics have faulted him for prolonging the war in Gaza to appease his far-right allies, and for permitting ultra-Orthodox Jews to forgo military service to appease that sizable religious voter bloc.
    — Arkansas Online, Arkansas Online, 19 Oct. 2026
  • Ellison fils’s most high-profile hiring decision was to enlist Bari Weiss—the former Times Opinion editor and founder of the center-right publication The Free Press—as editor-in-chief of CBS News.
    — Vinson Cunningham, New Yorker, 18 Oct. 2026
Definition of right
Noun
  • India, an avatar of forceful neutralism early on, saw its influence diminished by regional conflict and domestic troubles.
    — Erez Manela, Foreign Affairs, 14 Dec. 2021
  • Globalizing impulses helped bring about a flourishing of neutralism.
    — Leo Robson, The New Yorker, 5 Dec. 2016
Definition of neutralism
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  • Scholl was a walking catalogue who brought his journalistic objectiveness to preservation, Matuszewicz said.
    — Noelle Phillips, Denver Post, 11 Jan. 2026
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