I. adjective
COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES
an exact equivalent (= something that has exactly the same meaning, purpose, value etc as something else )
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There is no exact equivalent in English for the phrase.
broadly similar/comparable/equivalent etc
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We reached broadly similar conclusions.
roughly equal/comparable/equivalent
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two rocks of roughly equal size
the modern equivalent of sth (= something with the same importance or purpose as something from the past )
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In their own minds they are the modern equivalent of highwaymen.
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ ADVERB
approximately
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Our finding also confirms previous reports that postprandial serum gastrin consists of approximately equivalent concentrations of G17 and G34.
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This amount was approximately equivalent to half of their annual salary, depending on age and position held.
broadly
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This is in accordance with the Council's long standing policy to maintain reserves broadly equivalent to three months' core activity expenditure.
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It would provide the maximum area of water within the engineering constraints and would be broadly equivalent to mean high water mark.
exactly
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And yet Aronofsky, with relentless, almost aesthetic cruelty, shows her fate as exactly equivalent to her son's.
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Table 5.5 presents these coefficients, estimated using ordinary least squares, for exactly equivalent models to those reported in section 5.6.
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The attribute pair citing.text.id and cited.text.id is exactly equivalent to ref.id defined earlier in the Taxis-like symbolic key definition of Figure 2.
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The statement is exactly equivalent to Leading spaces will be removed from the input line, but not trailing spaces.
roughly
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That is roughly equivalent to the gross global product of Earth for the next thirty thousand years.
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Consequently, they are roughly equivalent to the transracially adopted children.
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Her snack bar was roughly equivalent to a trust fund.
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This was roughly equivalent to an investment of 1.25 pence for every unit of electricity ever generated by nuclear power in Britain.
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Being told that one must change to survive is roughly equivalent to being told that one will burn in hell.
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Wilson aides said the governor thought that roughly equivalent comparisons could be made between schools and districts using different tests.
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The rate of withdrawal over natural replenishment is now roughly equivalent to the flow of the Colorado River.
■ NOUN
amount
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Control incubations used equivalent amounts of phosphatidylcholine vesicles without cholesteryl oleate.
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First, they wanted at least an equivalent amount of compensatory land.
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The buyer receives a further 100 from the seller who has to pay an equivalent amount as variation margin.
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Real team members always do equivalent amounts of real work beyond and between meetings where things are discussed and decided.
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The intention is that over extended periods of time equivalent machines receive an equivalent amount of resource.
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That's the equivalent amount of time that is spent in the average household washing up in one year.
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My husband did not have enough marks to pay the bill, so he offered to pay the equivalent amount in Sterling.
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His intention to repay the equivalent amount was relevant to dishonesty, not to the intention permanently to deprive.
effect
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If so, an equivalent effect can be expected in latent inhibition.
figures
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The equivalent figures for the trip to Manchester were eighty, forty-five and less than thirty hours.
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The equivalent figures for manual workers other than general labourers show a reverse pattern.
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For seventeen year olds the equivalent figures are 70 and 44 percent.
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The equivalent figures for female workers were £68 and £83 respectively.
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No equivalent figures are given for Cramlington because of the irrelevance of the information given for Cramlington before the late 1970s.
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Oil equivalent figures referred to in this document are based on 6,000 cubic feet of gas equalling one barrel of oil equivalent.
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The equivalent figures in Newham were 4l, with 25 closed and 16 open.
qualification
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Direct entry to masters' courses is normally limited to those with good honours degrees or equivalent qualifications .
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Some 22 percent of councillors had a degree or equivalent qualification compared to only 5 percent of the general population.
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Applicants should have a degree or equivalent qualification in chemistry and relevant post-graduate experience or training in analytical chemistry.
value
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Similarly, managers and directors appeared to share an equivalent value orientation to the fans and were more receptive to their opinions.
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The equivalent value for women suggests a positively sloped aggregate labour supply curve.
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
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He was fined $50 but given the choice of doing the equivalent amount of community work.
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His monthly US salary is equivalent to a year's pay here in Mexico.
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If these prizes are not in stock we will send you an equivalent gift of the same value.
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no more than 12 bottles of beer or an equivalent amount of alcohol
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The US Congress is roughly equivalent to the British Parliament.
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The volcanic eruption on Krakatoa had an explosive power equivalent to 20,000 tons of TNT.
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Unemployed workers receive welfare payments and rent assistance equivalent to 50% of their usual income.
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Any transaction involving two groups or two equivalent individuals is regarded as a negotiation rather than an interview.
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By contrast, a small saving in purchasing costs can be worth considerably more in terms of equivalent sales value. 9.
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The equivalent figure for women was 31 percent in 1972 and 63 percent in 1983.
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The equivalent figures in Newham were 4l, with 25 closed and 16 open.
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There is no equivalent history of the Liberal party during this period.
II. noun
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■ ADJECTIVE
exact
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There is no exact equivalent of Taking the Side of the Other.
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Both printed and online forms of the bibliography are exact equivalents when conducting author searches.
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The basic spiritual treatment of eating disorders is the exact equivalent of that for Chemical Dependency.
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Copper pipe - actual sizes Mathematicians among you will notice that these are, in fact, not exact equivalents .
human
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No human equivalent of the endogenous mouse retroviral superantigens has yet been described.
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She had chosen for herself the human equivalent of sackcloth and ashes, and she denounced herself for a masochist.
modern
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There were any number of cranes, cars and mechanical arms fashioned from the modern equivalents of Meccano.
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I guess the modern equivalent of the actual party would be that Reform joke Ross Perot threw together.
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These cargo planes are the modern equivalents of the tramp steamer.
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These profit opportunities are the modern equivalent of finding El Doradothe city of gold.
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I have known rocks become oblivious to both the old type of scarecrow and its modern equivalent , the automatic banger.
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The honest farm-lad building stoops of corn - or the modern equivalent .
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Who knows a modern equivalent of the Oxford three-quarter line may be waiting to be found.
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Some of Sydney's residents are apprehensive about the prospect of a modern equivalent of Elis's tumult.
near
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On dry land the nearest equivalents of the filter-feeders are the grazers.
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Next to the speaking engagement, the nearest legal equivalent to the straight cash bribe is the campaign contribution.
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The Boots Booklovers Library, the nearest equivalent , survived until the sixties; the branch in Exeter closed in 1965.
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The Touchmaster doesn't seem to suffer from the major problem faced by its nearest equivalent , the Koala-pad in this respect.
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The nearest equivalent at the time was Peter Hain's Young Liberals.
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If that's how oyster's flavoured, it's nearest equivalent is brine.
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cash
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These investments have therefore been treated as cash equivalents in preparing the cash flow statement reflecting the liquid nature of the investments.
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Horsham has the right to deliver either the shares or their cash equivalent .
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Once again, if the individual is offered the cash equivalent the new budget line is 45.
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Therefore net cash balances comprise cash and cash equivalents together with money market deposits.
PHRASES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
the nearest thing/equivalent to sth
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A little bit of sleep was the nearest thing to consolation left for people like us.
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Here was perhaps the nearest thing to alchemy that had ever been seen in the field of politics.
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I think she and Phil were the nearest thing to soccer hooligans that canoeing can produce.
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It was the nearest thing to a coherent defence system yet seen at Verdun.
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So let us accept that I am the nearest thing to a father that Nana has available.
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Still, as Jane belonged nowhere, Sussex became the nearest thing to home.
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That and the fact that it lost faith in the nearest thing to a charismatic it had had since Rose Fox.
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The United Nations General Assembly has been called the nearest thing to a world parliament.
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
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Some Thai words have no English equivalents.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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A record is an ordered collection of data items and/or data aggregates, the equivalent of a tuple.
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It was the equivalent of about £1500 million at 1980's values, although greater than that in relation to the size of the economy.
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Moving the game westward and southward follows a grand historic progression, a sports equivalent of Manifest Destiny.
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The numerical score may be either an age equivalent or a standardised score.
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The purchase of a carcass would be the equivalent of the purchase of two sides of beef.
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They want the motoring equivalent of Carlsberg Special.
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Trying to do so is the equivalent of adding oranges and lemons.