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Fairness vs Equity - What's the difference?

fairness | equity |

As nouns the difference between fairness and equity

is that fairness is the property of being fair or equitable while equity is ownership, especially in terms of net monetary value of some business.

fairness

English

Noun

(wikipedia fairness)
  • The property of being fair or equitable.
  • In fairness , I should have asked before I borrowed your car.
  • The property of being fair or beautiful.
  • Anagrams

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    equity

    English

    (wikipedia equity)

    Alternative forms

    * (archaic)

    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 .

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