Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun The condition or fact of being unequal, as in age, rank, or degree; difference.
- noun Unlikeness; incongruity.
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun The state or character of being disparate.
- noun Dissimilitude; extreme unlikeness; specifically, a degree of unlikeness so great that it renders comparison impossible.
- noun One of two or more unlike things; a disparate.
- noun Synonyms Dissimilarity, etc. (see
difference ), disproportion.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun Inequality; difference in age, rank, condition, or excellence; dissimilitude; -- followed by
between ,in ,of ,as to , etc.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun uncountable the state of being
unequal ;difference - noun
incongruity
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun inequality or difference in some respect
Etymologies
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License
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Examples
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I'm guessing that the increase in disparity is more because the geezer bands can now charge hundreds of dollars per ticket to boomers reliving their past glory than a shift in attendance patterns.
Aging Rockers vs. the Long Tail, Arnold Kling | EconLog | Library of Economics and Liberty 2009
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When you compare the two lists of groups -- which you can see after the jump -- the disparity is almost comical.
Conservative groups have spent up to $75 million in undisclosed funds, dwarfing left Greg Sargent 2010
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Updated 10: 48: Sen. Cornyn just asked Judge Sotomayor a pointed question about what he calls a disparity between what she has said in speeches and how she has characterized those speeches.
Doug Kendall: Liveblogging the Sotomayor Confirmation Hearing (Day 4) 2009
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Business South Africa is to petition the Constitutional Court on what it describes as a disparity in collective bargaining rights for employers and employees in the final constitution adopted on
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What was a 100 to 1 disparity is now "only" an 18 to 1 disparity.
Andrea Lyon: Sense and Sentencing Andrea Lyon 2010
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Posted at 10: 51 AM in disparity, sadly, it's news, stereotypes | Permalink
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Either pull the lowest schools up to that level or have the two meet somewhere in the middle, but this disparity is just going to keep breeding bad results.
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In fact, the only space that could hold such disparity is the realm of fiction itself, an infinitely elastic space where anything is possible.
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At this point, when US income disparity is high, a tax on the wealthy would allow to balance our federal budget in relatively short order. howard says:
Matthew Yglesias » Harold Ford Calls for Immediate Tax Cuts, Immediate Deficit Reduction 2010
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To some degree, this disparity is created by the market & any policy proposal should recognize that.
Fogel Vs. Wonks, Arnold Kling | EconLog | Library of Economics and Liberty 2009
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