Definitions for equities

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equities eq·ui·ty

Spelling: [ek-wi-tee]

IPA: /ˈɛk wɪ ti/

Equities is a 8 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 17 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 18 points.

You can make 90 anagrams from letters in equities (eeiiqstu).

Definitions for equities

noun

1. the quality of being fair or impartial; fairness; impartiality: Synonyms: disinterest, equitableness, impartiality, fair-mindedness, fairness, justness, evenhandedness, objectivity; justice, probity. Antonyms: bias, discrimination, inequity, injustice, partiality, partisanship, prejudice, unfairness, unreasonableness; injustice.
2. something that is fair and just:
3. Law. Also called chancery. the application of the dictates of conscience or the principles of natural justice to the settlement of controversies. Also called chancery. a system of jurisprudence or a body of doctrines and rules developed in England and followed in the U.S., serving to supplement and remedy the limitations and the inflexibility of the common law. an equitable or legally valid right or claim. equity of redemption.
4. the monetary value of a property or business beyond any amounts owed on it in mortgages, claims, liens, etc.:
5. Informal. ownership, especially when considered as the right to share in future profits or appreciation in value.
6. the interest of the owner of common stock in a corporation.
7. (in a margin account) the excess of the market value of the securities over any indebtedness.
8. (initial capital letter) Actors' Equity Association.

Origin of equities

1275-1325; Middle English equite Latin aequitās. See equi-, -ty²

Examples for equities

In its recent quarter, Goldman showed massive declines in its trading revenues of both bonds and equities, 20 to 30 percent.

He was an equities trader with Solomon Brothers who was laid off in 1981 with a $10 million severance package.

That's what it amounts to, when you get down to it, behind all the bank balances and equities.

China holds about $1.5 trillion in Treasury bonds, equities and the like.

Black Feather, who believed firmly in the equities of force, did not hesitate.

As the goods are sold, so are the equities in them released, and the balance is credited to the mill.

Once more Bonteck went over the equities patiently and painstakingly.

Where the equities are equal the law prevails, in any course it likes to pursue.

These days, however, sophisticated investors and those with large pools of capital are trading in everything but U.S. equities.

I lose my sense of the equities of life in the face of so sad a business.