(~s)
Frequency: The word is one of the 3000 most common words in English.
1.
If one amount or value is the ~ of another, they are the same.
The ~ of two tablespoons of polyunsaturated oils is ample each day...
Even the cheapest car costs the ~ of 70 years’ salary for a government worker.
N-SING: oft N of n
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Equivalent is also an adjective.
A unit is ~ to a glass of wine or a single measure of spirits...
They will react with hostility to the price rises and calls for ~ wage increases are bound to be heard.
= equal
ADJ: oft ADJ to n
2.
The ~ of someone or something is a person or thing that has the same function in a different place, time, or system.
...the civil administrator of the West Bank and his ~ in Gaza.
...the Red Cross emblem, and its ~ in Muslim countries, the Red Crescent.
= counterpart
N-COUNT: usu with poss
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Equivalent is also an adjective.
...a decrease of 10% in property investment compared with the ~ period in 1991.
ADJ
3.
You can use ~ to emphasize the great or severe effect of something.
His party has just suffered the ~ of a near-fatal heart attack.
N-SING: the N of n emphasis