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adjective

equitable

fair and impartial

In a sentence

Six example sentences with equitable, each labelled with its topic.

  • The settlement divided the estate on equitable terms, giving each sibling a share matched to what they had contributed.

    Law

  • The founders wrote an equitable split into the first contract, so nobody could claim later that effort went unrewarded.

    Business

  • An equitable dividend policy pays the small holders on the same schedule as the institutions that own most shares.

    Finance

  • The commission redrew the districts so that each had an equitable share of both farmland and city blocks.

    Politics

  • The coach promised equitable minutes in preseason, so every player on the bench got a real chance to prove herself.

    Basketball

  • Health officials designed an equitable rollout, sending the first vaccine doses to the villages farthest from any hospital.

    Medicine

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