Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- adjective Showing or characterized by equity; just and fair. synonym: fair.
- adjective Of or relating to rights historically enforced in courts of equity.
- adjective Resolved not simply according to the strict letter of the law but in accordance with principles of substantial justice and the unique facts of the case.
from The Century Dictionary.
- According to the principles of equity; just and right under all the circumstances of the particular case; fair and equal: as, an equitable decision; an equitable distribution.
- Pertaining to or dependent upon strict equity or justice; regarding or relating to abstract right in individual cases: applied in law to the administration of justice by courts of equity, and to the principles established and methods of procedure practised by them: as, equitable rights or remedies; equitable rules or powers. See
equity . - Property belonging to the estate of a decedent by law not subject to payment of his debts in course of administration, but voluntarily charged by the testator with payment of debts generally, or upon which equity fastens a trust for that purpose.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- adjective Possessing or exhibiting equity; according to natural right or natural justice; marked by a due consideration for what is fair, unbiased, or impartial; just.
- adjective (Law) That can be sustained or made available or effective in a court of equity, or upon principles of equity jurisprudence
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- adjective Marked by or having
equity . - adjective
Fair , just, orimpartial . - adjective law Relating to the general principles of
justice that correct or supplement the provisions of the law.
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- adjective fair to all parties as dictated by reason and conscience
Etymologies
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
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Examples
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And should there be no check put to this disintegration of society, then must come what the radicals are now so anxious to obtain, the equitable adjustment -- and in that case it is a problem how far that may not be really _equitable_; for society may, by degrees, arrive to a state so anomalous as to warrant that the few should be sacrificed for the benefit of the community at large.
Olla Podrida Frederick Marryat 1820
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To help local government, we are introducing what we call the equitable share of revenue for local government.
Speech by the Deputy President, Thabo Mbeki, at the Opening of Kwa-Ndebele Water Supply Project 1999
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Divorce will become more difficult due to the taxes on alimony, while a husband will be freed of all responsibility to maintain equitable treatment of his wives if he engages in polygamy -- in Islam, polygamy is explicitly forbidden in the Quran unless the husband is capable of treating his wives in a perfectly equal fashion.
Shayan Ghajar: Iranian Women Poised for Major Setback Shayan Ghajar 2010
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Divorce will become more difficult due to the taxes on alimony, while a husband will be freed of all responsibility to maintain equitable treatment of his wives if he engages in polygamy -- in Islam, polygamy is explicitly forbidden in the Quran unless the husband is capable of treating his wives in a perfectly equal fashion.
Shayan Ghajar: Iranian Women Poised for Major Setback Shayan Ghajar 2010
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What I think Google needs to do to make that equitable is to also reward the sites that the user visits to make the decision as to what ad it should show.
Behavioural advertising should reward niche sites « Squash 2009
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What I think Google needs to do to make that equitable is to also reward the sites that the user visits to make the decision as to what ad it should show.
2009 March « Squash 2009
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Divorce will become more difficult due to the taxes on alimony, while a husband will be freed of all responsibility to maintain equitable treatment of his wives if he engages in polygamy -- in Islam, polygamy is explicitly forbidden in the Quran unless the husband is capable of treating his wives in a perfectly equal fashion.
Shayan Ghajar: Iranian Women Poised for Major Setback Shayan Ghajar 2010
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One way to be more equitable is to insure no more than $100,000 in deposits, limited to cover for someone in a 5 year period of time and pegged to their SS Number, and limited further by not allowing someone to get more than $100,000 simply by splitting their deposits among multiple institutions.
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The only way to make it fair and equitable is to grant true joint custody. 6 months w/mommy, 6 months w/daddy and no money changing hands.
Indiana Hunts Down Dead-Beat Parents Dave Hurteau 2008
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Her dreams of parenthood, apparently formed while tripping across green New Haven quadrangles on her way to feminist-theory classes, were starkly different: "I had wanted us to be a mother and a father raising children side by side, the man moving into the world of children, the woman into the world of work, in equitable balance, maybe each working flexibly from home, the two making the same world and sharing the same experiences and values."
lampbane commented on the word equitable
I learned this word from an episode of Batman: The Animated Series ("What is Reality?"):
"If the planet were equitable, I'd still have my old job."
They find the Riddler at the World's Fair.
March 26, 2009
isnotnull commented on the word equitable
Not to be confused with equable which means "not easily disturbed or angered; calm and even tempered."
September 15, 2023