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Justifiable vs Equity - What's the difference?

justifiable | equity |

As an adjective justifiable

is that can be justified.

As a noun equity is

value of some business.

justifiable

English

Adjective

(en-adj)
  • That can be justified.
  • * 1917 , Albert Einstein, Relativity: The Special and General Theory , Part II.
    • ''It was at all times clear that, from the point of view of the idea it conveys to us, every motion must be considered only as a relative motion. Returning to the illustration we have frequently used of the embankment and the railway carriage, we can express the fact of the motion here taking place in the following two forms, both of which are equally justifiable :
    ''(a) The carriage is in motion relative to the embankment,
    ''(b) The embankment is in motion relative to the carriage.
    In (a) the embankment, in (b) the carriage, serves as the body of reference in our statement of the motion taking place. —

    Antonyms

    * unjustifiable

    Related terms

    * justifiability * justifiably

    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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