parity
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6.5
- noun
- /ˈpærɪti/
- "There was little hope that some sort of parity between the United States and other powers could be reached.
- achieve parity
- reach parity
- maintain parity
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- We were almost at parity in the most male fields.
- We are able to produce renewable energy at parity to the grid prices.
- So I guess we'll do feature parity first.
- All those purchasing power parity guesses between currencies are mostly a model.
- The fact is, is that there's very little parity between the actual prop and likely what Downey wore on set.
- Whether you're looking at the private or the public sector, pay parity remains unattained at many levels in both public and private sectors.
- And the last NHS mandate really had a lot of mention of mental health, not just the parity, but also what that meant.
- And in addition to all this, we will ensure that the NHS itself takes the steps it needs to ensure that parity means just that, parity.
Examples
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Thus, the real estate operator is almost at parity with other businesspersons.
Academic text (1993) -
All countries must achieve gender parity in education.
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Both began to reach economic parity with Great Britain in the 1880s.
Academic text (2008) -
There's gender parity in the biotech firms.
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I recall that Frida's original idea was to form a union to agitate for parity in the art world.
Academic text (2011) -
Effective competition requires, inter alia, a reasonable degree of parity in the marketplace.
Academic text (1994) -
Speaker, it was a Labour amendment to the Health and Social Care Bill that resulted in parity of esteem being put on the face of the bill.
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Many organizations are working towards gender parity to ensure equal opportunities for men and women in the workplace.
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The company aims to achieve salary parity among its employees regardless of gender or background.
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Efforts to create economic parity between rural and urban areas are essential for sustainable development.
Synonyms
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2.5
A situation where different things are in the right amount and are stable
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2.2
People have the same rights, position, and opportunities
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4.1
A situation where things are treated as equal in value or importance
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5.2
A state of being equal to something else in quality or value
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6.2
A situation where two things have the same value, meaning, or effect
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6.7
Being equal in value, amount, or function
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6.6
Agreement between ideas or an exact match in size and shape
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6.3
Close agreement between ideas, actions, or values
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9.9
A situation in which people have the same rights and status
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8.7
A situation where people have the same status and importance
Two things that have the same power, value, or importance
Antonyms
Compounds
- Specialized
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5.8
A way to find errors in digital data by checking whether the number of ones is even or odd
- Specialized
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6.2
A small extra binary digit added so the total number of 1s is even or odd to find errors
- Specialized
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9.6
A rule in physics that switching left and right gives the same result
How Equal
Surface Forms
Morphology
parity = par (transparent) = par + ity
The noun is a standard and directly interpretable formation from 'par' meaning 'equal' plus '-ity' meaning a state or condition.
Etymology
Parity comes from the Latin root par meaning 'equal', like English pair or the golf word par. So parity means being 'equal' in status, value, or function.