verb
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ NOUN
cost
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Pricing at marginal cost might equate marginal cost and benefit but would entail losses.
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In theory this process could go as far as equating marginal cost with demand so that the bureaucracy obtains all the consumer surplus.
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Presumably, the rational shareholder would do this up to the point at which marginal benefit was equated with marginal cost .
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The monopolist produces an output Q M at a price P M thus equating marginal cost and marginal revenue.
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The equilibrium price or insurance premium would equate the marginal cost and marginal benefit of risk-bearing.
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Free market equilibrium will not equate marginal cost and marginal benefit and there will be scope for Pareto gains.
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Equilibrium will be inefficient. 7 Distortions occur whenever free market equilibrium does not equate marginal social cost and marginal social benefit.
value
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These are usually equated with production values in broadcasting.
■ VERB
seem
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These executives seem to equate marketing with selling and fail to consider other aspects of the marketing system.
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Petrey seems to equate locution with semantics and illocution with pragmatics, but does not say so explicitly.
tend
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Official explanations of deficiencies in teaching quality have tended to equate such deficiencies with tendencies to adopt transmission patterns of teaching.
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For preoperational children, justice tends to be equated with punishment and whatever adults say is right must be right.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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Both groups reinforced a mutual worldview that equated leadership with brilliant, tough-minded, and decisive strategic insight and decision making.
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Invariably, people equate the color to comfort; they feel nurtured by it.
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Means-tested assistance is equated by the customer with second-class citizenship.
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Presumably, the rational shareholder would do this up to the point at which marginal benefit was equated with marginal cost.
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The market ensures that the price equals the marginal benefit and the marginal cost, and hence equates the two.
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They are wrong about equating decentralization with loss of control.