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inequality | American Dictionary

inequality
noun[ C/U ]
us/ˌɪn·ɪˈkwɑl·ɪ·t̬i/
a lack of equality or fair treatment in the sharing of wealth or opportunities:
[ U ]social/racial inequality

inequality | Business English

inequality
noun[ C or U ]
 ECONOMICSuk /ˌɪnɪˈkwɒləti/us
a situation in which money or opportunities are not shared equally between different groups in society:
Several polls show that one of the biggest issues on people's minds is economic inequality.

Examples of inequality

inequality
It is common to define egalitarianism in terms of an inequality ordering, which is supposed to have some weight in overall evaluations of outcomes.
Then we obtain a facet-defining inequality of the projected polyhedron.
But we ultimately want to consider judgements about how overall situations compare regarding inequality.
In societies characterised by extreme inequality, the effects of unequal citizen involvement may actually exacerbate the inequitable provision of public security.
Class analysis is useful in underlining domination and resistance and in highlighting inequality in social relations.
First, we explore whether income from natural resource extraction affects poverty and inequality.
The first places all inequality constraints directly into a logarithmic barrier, leaving only explicit equality constraints.
Taxing capital at a higher rate decreases both gross wage inequality and net inequality.
An inequality relationship specifies an area in which design solutions exist.
This requirement is essential in the simply typed calculus for obtaining non-trivial inequalities.
The underlying point is not simply that any effort to reduce economic inequality or eliminate perceived injustices must respect people's basic moral and civic rights.
This is of particular concern since these same groups are over-represented among those who experience inequalities in health over the life course.
This extreme inequality allowed elites to use their power to influence the development of both economic and political institutions.
Global inequality also increases the political, economic, and environmental vulnerability of especially small states and less developed countries, due to their lack of financial capacity.
It is this inequality, deriving from the brute luck inequality in endowments of talent, that we wish to address.
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degree of inequality
The more concave the curve, the greater the degreeofinequality in sizes among worms.
economic inequality
Class may be fundamentally about economicinequality, but as historians know economicinequality does not automatically take class forms.
extreme inequality
In societies characterised by extreme inequality, the effects of unequal citizen involvement may actually exacerbate the inequitable provision of public security.
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