equitynoun
uk/ˈek.wɪ.ti/us/ˈek.wə.t̬i/equity noun (VALUE)
[ C or U ] specialized finance & economics the value of a company, divided into many equal parts owned by the shareholders, or one of the equal parts into which the value of a company is divided:
[ U ] the value of a property after you have paid any mortgage or other charges relating to it
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Stock markets
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- bear
- bourse
- buy-in
- cash
- cash out sth
- dead cat bounce
- dividend
- Dow Jones
- haircut
- intangible asset
- investment
- mature
- maturity
- negotiable
- rogue trader
- speculation
- stockbroker
- stockholder
- trading
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equity noun (FAIRNESS)
[ U ] formal the situation in which everyone is treated fairly and equally:
- The opposite of equity is inequity.
[ U ] specialized law in English-speaking countries, a system of justice that allows a fair judgment of a case where the laws that already exist are not satisfactory
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Justice and fairness
- a fair crack of the whip idiom
- all's fair in love and war idiom
- an eye for an eye (and a tooth for a tooth) idiom
- balanced
- by rights idiom
- equitable
- even-handed
- eye
- fair
- fair go
- fair-minded
- fairly
- fear
- law
- play the game idiom
- poetic justice
- pound of flesh idiom
- reap what you have sown idiom
- term
- there's one law for the rich and another for the poor idiom
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