PARITY


Meaning of PARITY in English

noun

COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS

■ VERB

achieve

The situation has improved substantially since then and girls have achieved parity with boys as far as staying on at school.

To be competitive, Prodigy is working to achieve feature parity with other on-line services in the near term.

Edinburgh has yet to achieve parity core-funding with the younger London Film Festival.

It would give designated emergency crews the chance to achieve pay parity with firemen.

give

Respondents welcomed the document, clearly indicating that it gave Religious Education parity of status with other areas of the curriculum.

The third provision, added by the Senate, would give mental health coverage parity with medical coverage.

EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES

Middle class blacks in the US have not yet achieved parity with whites in graduate school entries.

Part-time workers are demanding parity with their full-time colleagues.

The Soviets' aim was to achieve parity in nuclear capability.

EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS

However, rates of placenta previa increased markedly with age and with parity when age was controlled.

Kelly said the caucus is also seeking medical parity between men and women.

Other policies had tended to limit equality or parity between schools at the same time.

Some studies they suggest may have failed to detect an effect of parity because they did not concentrate on this risk period.

The situation has improved substantially since then and girls have achieved parity with boys as far as staying on at school.

Wages and prices were converted at parity .

When you have parity of power, that promotes understanding and the realization that all employees are interdependent.

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