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equity Definition

equi·ty (ek′wit ē)

noun pl. -·ties

  1. fairness; impartiality; justice
  2. anything that is fair or equitable
  3. ☆ the value of property beyond the total amount owed on it in mortgages, liens, etc.
  4. Accounting, Finance
    1. assets minus liabilities; net worth; capital
    2. that portion of a company's net worth belonging to its owners or shareholders shareholders' equity
    3. shares of stock bonds and equities
  5. Law
    1. resort to general principles of fairness and justice whenever existing law is inadequate
    2. a system of rules and doctrines, as in the U.S., supplementing common and statute law and superseding such law when it proves inadequate for just settlement
    3. a right or claim recognized in a court of equity
    4. equity of redemption

Etymology: ME equite < OFr équité < L aequitas, equality < aequus: see equal

adjective

of or relating to stocks, stock markets, etc. equity financing

equity Synonyms

equity

n.

  1. Net value of property

    investment, assets, stake, ownership; see property 1.

  2. Fairness

    impartiality, justice, evenhandedness; see equality, fairness.

equity Finance Definition
  1. Stock, either common or preferred.
  2. The difference between the value of a house, or other real estate, and the amount owed on the mortgage.
  3. An ownership stake in a partnership or joint venture.
equity Law Definition

n

Fair dealing under widely held moral principles, often embodied in court precedents; a body of common law founded on such principles, providing special remedies, such as injunctions, in cases where monetary damages are not available or will not suffice.
equity Usage Examples

Converse of object

  • release: Releasing equity from your property through an equity release scheme will reduce its value for inheritance tax purposes.

Preposition: as

  • collateral: I don't consider the ability to take out massive loans with the equity as collateral makes me richer, just much more indebted.

Adjective modifier

  • negative: The only thing worse than having negative equity on your house is having negative equity on two houses!
  • intergenerational: On the one hand, it has to intervene in order to achieve intergenerational equity, compatibly with a time consistent social welfare criterion.
  • private: Maurice Dwyer, head of private equity, said: Sarah is the perfect fit for our national practice.
  • prudential: They can fake he confused with director prudential equity.
  • overseas: There was also a re-weighting within equities out of the UK and into overseas equities.

Modifies a noun

  • loan: Online lenders are offering home equity loans with the lowest interest rates in years.
  • stake: Once they have agreed a deal with the vendors, only then will they decide on the management's equity stake.
  • release: Property may be sold, with proceeds from sale used to repay equity release loan.
  • withdrawal: In her first year as a PhD student, she is investigating the economic effects of mortgage equity withdrawal in the UK.
  • financing: During the year we raised £ 93 million in a follow-on equity financing.
  • investor: The equity investors will often assume some amount of representation on the Board of Directors.

Noun used with modifier

  • gender: Gender equity has yet to be brought into the birth chamber.
  • home: Online lenders are offering home equity loans with the lowest interest rates in years.
  • sweat: Dhakka is the sweat equity capital of the laboring poor of south Asia!
  • brand: Either way it is damaging the brand equity they crafted.
  • mortgage: Home Equity Helpful guide to reverse mortgage equity loans, with descriptions, eligibility, considerations.
  • cent: If you are choosing a joint venture don't think that by taking a 90 per cent equity stake you will necessarily have control.

Preposition: of

  • redemption: Protection of the mortgagor's equity of redemption ( including the doctrine of ' clogs and fetters ' ).
equity Quotes

La premie'  re e¤  galite¤  , c'est l'e¤  quite¤  . The first equality is equity.

—Hugo,Victor Marie

To promote a woman to bear rule, superiority, dominion, or empire above any realm, nation, or city, is repugnant to nature, contumely to God, a thing most contrarious to his revealed will and approved ordinance; and, finally, it isthe subversion of good order, of all equityand justice.

—Knox,John

   During my tenure of power, myearnest wish has beento impress the people of this country with a belief that the legislature was animated bya sincere desire to frame its legislation upon the principles of equity and justice† Deprive me of power tomorrow, but you can never deprive me of the consciousness that I have exercised the powers committed to me from no corrupt or interested motives, from no desire to gratifyambition, or to attain any personal object.

—Peel, Sir Robert