Noun

value of some business.

* {{quote-magazine, date=2013-06-22, volume=407, issue=8841, page=70, magazine=(The Economist)

, title= 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.}}

(legal) A legal that deals with remedies other than (l) relief, such as injunctions, divorces and similar actions.

* Macaulay

Equity had been gradually shaping itself into a refined science which no human faculties could master without long and intense application.

(legal) of property minus liens or other (l).

(legal) An equitable claim; an equity of redemption.

an equity''' to a settlement, or wife's '''equity , etc.

* Kent

I consider the wife's equity to be too well settled to be shaken.

(accounting) Ownership interest in a company as determined by subtracting liabilities from (l).

Justice, impartiality or fairness.

* Tillotson

Christianity secures both the private interests of men and the public peace, enforcing all justice and equity .

Noun

(inequalities)

An unfair, not equal, state.

* {{quote-magazine, date=2013-05-17

, author=George Monbiot, authorlink=George Monbiot , title=Money just makes the rich suffer , volume=188, issue=23, page=19 , magazine=(The Guardian Weekly) citation , passage=In order to grant the rich these pleasures, the social contract is reconfigured. […]  The public realm is privatised, the regulations restraining the ultra–wealthy and the companies they control are abandoned, and Edwardian levels of inequality are almost fetishised.}}

The inequality in living standards led to a civil war as the have nots rebelled.

(mathematics) A statement that of two quantities one is specifically less than (or greater than) another. Symbol: < or ? or > or ? or ?, as appropriate.

The inequality''' x is less than y, together with that y x