equity

B2 Topic:Personal Finance

US /ˈɛk.wɪ.ti/ See IPA manual

Freq #17080

Meanings

1

noun
Fairness and equal treatment for everyone.

The school promotes equity of opportunity for all students.
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

noun
The shares that shareholders own in a company.

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

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Synonyms

1 noun · fairness and equal... fairness

Word family

Forms equities

Derived forms dequityequitizeequitylikenon-equitynonequityunequity

Related forms equitable

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Idioms (1)

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sweat equity
value built through hard work rather than cash investment

Simplified etymology

Equity dates from Middle English and ultimately derives from Latin aequus, “equal.”

Etymology

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

equitee Middle English equité Old French aequitās Latin

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# equity

**Type:** Word
**Level:** B2
**Part of speech:** noun
**IPA (US):** /ˈɛk.wɪ.ti/
**Frequency rank:** 17080

## 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
- Personal Finance
- Health & Medicine

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