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Definition
the value of an asset after all debts upon it are paidEquity is also the noun form of equitable; i.e., to be fair and reasonable to everyone.
- They bought the house without a 3% down payment, but now have negative equity.
- After a full enquiry, they unanimously sign'd a report that they found the tax had been assess'd with perfect equity.Benjamin Franklin -- The Autobiography of Benjamin Franklin
- Equity is the only acceptable goal.Tracy Kidder -- Mountains Beyond Mountains
- He balked around for a while, said it was all a question of balancin' the equities or something, that I was in an interesting but tenuous position.Harper Lee -- Go Set a Watchman
- Let us resume our lives with equity and decency.Mark Helprin -- A Soldier of the Great War
- I disagreed silently, but I realized how necessary it was for Moody to believe in the equity of Iranian justice.Betty Mahmoody -- Not Without My Daughter
- Bank loans and sweat equity.David Baldacci -- Zero Day
- I don't know how interesting it is, but before joining the Circle, I was in private equity, and before that I was part of a group that started—"Dave Eggers -- The Circle
- 99:4 The king's strength also loveth judgment; thou dost establish equity, thou executest judgment and righteousness in Jacob.The Bible -- Psalms
- I've expended considerable equity on you.Ted Dekker -- Black: The Birth of Evil
- "That," continued the cardinal, "arose not only from a feeling of natural equity, but likewise from a plan I have marked out with respect to you."Alexandre Dumas -- The Three Musketeers
- He had no doubts about the equity of the deal; his sanity, for serviceable legs.Arundhati Roy -- The God of Small Things
- But they would join together to support their common interest and desire to uphold the equity and principals of the Constitution.Alexander Hamilton, James Madison, & John Jay -- The Federalist Papers — Modern English Edition 2
- It's just that I know where the equities lie.Roger Zelazny -- Nine Princes in Amber
- ] And thou, his yokefellow of equity, Bench by his side:—[To Kent.William Shakespeare -- King Lear
- Therefore, I saw that here was a sort of interregnum in Providence; for its even-handed equity never could have so gross an injustice.Herman Melville -- Moby Dick
- Whether those pleading orators were persons educated in the general knowledge of equity, or only in provincial, national, and other local customs?Jonathan Swift -- Gulliver's Travels
- When the two parties are not private individuals, but States, an important political consideration is added to the same motive of equity.Alexis de Toqueville -- Democracy In America, Volume 1
- She sold the place off to Ole Jurgensen, sent their equity on down to them in California, didn't try to hold back their money.David Guterson -- Snow Falling on Cedars
- An the Prince and Pointz be not two arrant cowards, there's no equity stirring: there's no more valour in that Pointz than in a wild duck.William Shakespeare -- Henry IV, Part 1