Equity vs Fairly - What's the difference?
equity | fairly |
value of some business.
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* Macaulay
(legal) of property minus liens or other (l).
(legal) An equitable claim; an equity of redemption.
* Kent
(accounting) Ownership interest in a company as determined by subtracting liabilities from (l).
Justice, impartiality or fairness.
* Tillotson
In a fair manner; clearly; openly; plainly; fully; distinctly; frankly.
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Favorably; auspiciously; commodiously.
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Honestly; properly.
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*:10. You will be civil and attentive to passengers, giving proper assistance to ladies and children getting in or out, and never start the car before passengers are fairly received or landed.
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*:They burned the old gun that used to stand in the dark corner up in the garret, close to the stuffed fox that always grinned so fiercely. Perhaps the reason why he seemed in such a ghastly rage was that he did not come by his death fairly . Otherwise his pelt would not have been so perfect. And why else was he put away up there out of sight?—and so magnificent a brush as he had too..
Softly; quietly; gently.
Partly, not fully; somewhat.
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As a noun equity
is value of some business.As an adverb fairly is
in a fair manner; clearly; openly; plainly; fully; distinctly; frankly.equity
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(wikipedia equity)Alternative forms
* (archaic)Noun
Engineers of a different kind, passage=Private-equity nabobs bristle at being dubbed mere financiers. Piling debt onto companies’ balance-sheets is only a small part of what leveraged buy-outs are about, they insist. Improving the workings of the businesses they take over is just as core to their calling, if not more so. Much of their pleading is public-relations bluster.}}
- Equity had been gradually shaping itself into a refined science which no human faculties could master without long and intense application.
- an equity''' to a settlement, or wife's '''equity , etc.
- I consider the wife's equity to be too well settled to be shaken.
- Christianity secures both the private interests of men and the public peace, enforcing all justice and equity .
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Adverb
(en adverb)Mr. Pratt's Patients, passage=My hopes wa'n't disappointed. I never saw clams thicker than they was along them inshore flats. I filled my dreener in no time, and then it come to me that 'twouldn't be a bad idee to get a lot more, take 'em with me to Wellmouth, and peddle 'em out. Clams was fairly scarce over that side of the bay and ought to fetch a fair price.}}
Yesterday’s fuel, passage=The dawn of the oil age was fairly recent. Although the stuff was used to waterproof boats in the Middle East 6,000 years ago, extracting it in earnest began only in 1859 after an oil strike in Pennsylvania. The first barrels of crude fetched $18 (around $450 at today’s prices). It was used to make kerosene, the main fuel for artificial lighting after overfishing led to a shortage of whale blubber.}}