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UK
/ɪnˈɛkwɪti/
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[ US /ˌɪˈnɛkwəti/ ]
[ US /ˌɪˈnɛkwəti/ ]
NOUN
- injustice by virtue of not conforming with rules or standards
How To Use inequity In A Sentence
- What are some other relatively easy-to-change practices that perpetuate gender inequity?
- Nor is this an inequity anciently established. Times, Sunday Times
- Wealth inequity" isn't an issue unless it creates a degree of immiserization among the people that threatens the stability of a government. Drudge Retort
- Societies have historically rebelled against extremes of inequality, and recent studies have even suggested that the human brain is "hardwired" to dislike inequity. Richard (RJ) Eskow: We're Better off Than Egypt -- Right? Let's Take a Look.
- Many of the same tax loopholes that lead to inequity are also economically inefficient, even harmful.
- As the relevant courts have often noted, when a school reallocates resources to remedy past inequity against women, it does not commit a new act of reverse discrimination.
- The reasons behind this inequity, in my mind, lie beyond simple resource allocation.
- These distance criteria are the toughest in Australia and this inequity is simply unfair.
- Fairness can have incentive effect, inequity can have negative effect.
- Ascribing an intrinsic power differential to acts of appropriation, meanwhile, only obscures the specific act -- the "taking possession" -- and its questionable ethical nature -- its "illegitimacy" -- behind wider isues of political inequity which are arguably more important but more nebulous. More on Cultural Appropriation