equity

Meanings

1. 1
   noun

   Fairness and equal treatment for everyone.

   The school promotes equity of opportunity for all students.

2. 2
   noun

   The value of a property after any money owed on it is subtracted.

   After years of payments, they had built up a lot of equity in their house.

3. 3
   noun

   The shares that shareholders own in a company.

   The investors hold a large amount of equity in the firm.

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

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