Halve vs Equity - What's the difference?
halve | equity |
To reduce to half the original amount.
To divide into two halves.
To make up half of.
* M. Arnold
(architecture) To join two pieces of timber etc. by cutting away each for half its thickness at the joining place, and fitting together.
value of some business.
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, title= (legal) A legal that deals with remedies other than (l) relief, such as injunctions, divorces and similar actions.
* 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
As a verb halve
is to reduce to half the original amount.As a noun equity is
ownership, especially in terms of net monetary value of some business.halve
English
Verb
(halv)- So far apart their lives are thrown / From the twin soul that halves their own.
Anagrams
* English ergative verbs ----equity
English
(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 .