EQUATE


Meaning of EQUATE in English

verb

COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS

■ NOUN

cost

Pricing at marginal cost might equate marginal cost and benefit but would entail losses.

In theory this process could go as far as equating marginal cost with demand so that the bureaucracy obtains all the consumer surplus.

Presumably, the rational shareholder would do this up to the point at which marginal benefit was equated with marginal cost .

The monopolist produces an output Q M at a price P M thus equating marginal cost and marginal revenue.

The equilibrium price or insurance premium would equate the marginal cost and marginal benefit of risk-bearing.

Free market equilibrium will not equate marginal cost and marginal benefit and there will be scope for Pareto gains.

Equilibrium will be inefficient. 7 Distortions occur whenever free market equilibrium does not equate marginal social cost and marginal social benefit.

value

These are usually equated with production values in broadcasting.

■ VERB

seem

These executives seem to equate marketing with selling and fail to consider other aspects of the marketing system.

Petrey seems to equate locution with semantics and illocution with pragmatics, but does not say so explicitly.

tend

Official explanations of deficiencies in teaching quality have tended to equate such deficiencies with tendencies to adopt transmission patterns of teaching.

For preoperational children, justice tends to be equated with punishment and whatever adults say is right must be right.

EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS

Both groups reinforced a mutual worldview that equated leadership with brilliant, tough-minded, and decisive strategic insight and decision making.

Invariably, people equate the color to comfort; they feel nurtured by it.

Means-tested assistance is equated by the customer with second-class citizenship.

Presumably, the rational shareholder would do this up to the point at which marginal benefit was equated with marginal cost.

The market ensures that the price equals the marginal benefit and the marginal cost, and hence equates the two.

They are wrong about equating decentralization with loss of control.

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