equivalent
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Britannica Dictionary definition of EQUIVALENT
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having the same value, use, meaning, etc.
— often + to
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Those less-known companies manufacture equivalent products at cheaper prices.
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I haven't taken English 202, but I took an equivalent course at another university.
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an equivalent amount of money
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two words of equivalent meaning = two words that are equivalent in meaning
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100 milligrams of calcium, which is equivalent to three glasses of milk
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Allowing him to leave prison now would be equivalent to [=would amount to, would be the same as] saying that his crime was not serious.
— equivalently
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The two products are priced equivalently.
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Britannica Dictionary definition of EQUIVALENT
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something that has the same value, use, meaning, etc., as another thing
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a Chinese word for which English has no (exact) equivalent
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His newspaper column is the journalistic equivalent of candy.
