## Meanings
1. Fairness and equal treatment for everyone.
2. The value of a property after any money owed on it is subtracted.
3. The shares that shareholders own in a company.

## Examples
- The school promotes equity of opportunity for all students.
- After years of payments, they had built up a lot of equity in their house.
- The investors hold a large amount of equity in the firm.

## Derived Forms
- dequity
- equitize
- equitylike
- non-equity
- nonequity
- unequity

## Related Forms
- equitable

## Roots and Affixes
- Root: equitee
- Root: equité
- Root: aequitās

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

## AI Etymology
Equity comes from Middle English equitee, equytee, from Old French equité, from Latin aequitās (“uniformity; impartiality; fairness”). In current use, the main senses are “Fairness and equal treatment for everyone” and “The value of a property after any money owed on it is subtracted”.

## Topics
- Business & Commerce

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