equity

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/ˈɛk.wɪ.ti/

noun

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01
noun
Fairness and equal treatment for everyone.
02
noun
The value of a property after debts are subtracted.

Examples

The company is open for equity participation by anybody.
A Court of equity interposes only according to conscience.

At a glance

Sits at C1 on the CEFR scale

Senses: 5
Parts of speech: 1
Citations: 5

Also pronounced

/i.kwɪʈ.i/

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Extra meanings

Various related senses originating with the Court of Chancery in late Medieval England, The power of a court of law having extra-statutory discretion, to decide legal matters and to provide legal relief apart from, though not in violation of, the prevailing l...
Fairness, impartiality, or justice as determined in light of "natural law" or "natural right".
Various related senses originating with the Court of Chancery in late Medieval England

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Equity had been gradually shaping itself into a refined science which no human faculties could master without long and intense application.
It's an equity issue.
1800, Lloyd Kenyon, 1st Baron Kenyon in Mayor, &c. of Southampton v. Graves (1800), 8 T. R. 592. A Court of equity knows its own province.

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Sufficeth what they in their graue wiſedoomes ſhall proſcribe, I in no ſorte will ſeeke to acquite, nor preſumptuouſly attempte to diſpute againſt the equity of their iudgementes, but humble and proſtrate appeale to their mercies.
1599, [Thomas] Nashe, Nashes Lenten Stuffe, […], London: […] [Thomas Judson and Valentine Simmes] for N[icholas] L[ing] and C[uthbert] B[urby] […], →OCLC, page 2
“One of the staff said, ‘That’s fine, Delia. But what do wolves have to do with equity, justice and inclusion?’" Ms. Malone said.
2025 November 7, David A. Fahrenthold, Claire Brown, quoting Delia Malone, “The Sierra Club Embraced Social Justice. Then It Tore Itself Apart.”, in The New York Times, New York,...
The wife's equity does not, according to the adjudged cases, attach, except upon that part of her personal property in action which the husband cannot acquire without the assistance of a court of equity
1826, James Kent, Commentaries on American Law
Private-equity nabobs bristle at being dubbed mere financiers. Piling debt onto companies’ balance-sheets is only a small part of what leveraged buy-outs are about, they insist. Improving the workings of the businesses they take over is just as core to their calling, if not more so. Much of their pleading is public-relations bluster.
2013 June 22, “Engineers of a different kind”, in The Economist, volume 407, number 8841, page 70
What steps the Government are taking to help ensure equity of opportunity for people from low-income families.
2020 July 22, Ben Bradley, “Low-income Families: Equity of Opportunity”, in parliamentary debates (House of Commons), column 2139

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Origin

noun

From Middle English equitee, equytee, from Old French equité, from Latin aequitās (“uniformity; impartiality; fairness”).

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The company's blank was divided among the founders after the merger.