equalize
Aircraft fuel tanks are vented to allow for equalization of pressure at different altitudes.
Rural school systems are seeking equalization of teacher pay with urban systems.
I think there are other basic problems in this country that have to be overcome before we get equalization of educational opportunity in schools.
The measure provides for equalization of school funding.

SMART Vocabulary: related words and phrases

Being or appearing similar or the same
a passing resemblanceidiom
align
aligned
ballpark
be in good companyidiom
be in the same ballparkidiom
be nothing/not much/very little in itidiom
correspond
duplication
entrain
entrainment
equalizer
even (something) out
even something up
favour
mirror
non-contradictory
overlap
overlapping
parallel

equalization | Business English

equalization
noun[ U ]
(UK alsoequalisation)uk /ˌiːkwəlaɪˈzeɪʃən/ us /ˌiːkwəlɪˈzeɪʃən/
PROPERTY, TAX
in the US and Canada, a process in which each local tax authority tries to make sure that the amount of tax to pay on a property is calculated at the same percentage of its value as other properties:
The county's equalization director confirmed that property values had come to a standstill, rising only 1.6% over a 12-month period.
the process of making laws or treatment the same for all people or companies in a group or place:
equalization of sthThere are new rules which allow for the gradual equalization of pensions between men and women.

Examples of equalization

equalization
This latter fact reduces potential efficiency gains for the system by preventing the equalization of marginal value products between the regions.
As discussed in the introduction, the irreversibility of investment prevents the equalization of marginal productivity across sectors at every point in time.
The most effective way to accomplish this is by improving the risk-equalization scheme.
Now it turned out there was a certain implication that developed from the interest equalization tax almost immediately.
However, after a number of generations when the relation among individuals becomes uniform, minimum coancestry will simply be the equalization of family sizes.
The tendency towards the equalization of time-expenditure between employed men and women is apparent in cooking and food-preparation, and in cleaning up after meals.
The first crucial determinant is the quality of the risk-equalization scheme.
Indeed, it should first be established that such is the character of what happens when "homogenization" and "equalization" are introduced.
Because of risk equalization, sickness funds are not in competition with each other or with private institutions with respect to providing statutory pharmaceutical benefits.
In contrast, the proof adopted a reverse order, considering first equalization and then homogenization.
These experiments confirmed that equalization of family sizes could be used to effectively double the size of the scarce captive breeding space.
Redistributive taxation and the equalization of people's ability to obtain health care and education is thus perfectly acceptable - and indeed desirable.
These data are interpreted within the context of the equalization process of class patterning.
They did not, however, consider within-family selection against mutations, which is still possible under equalization of family size.
It also introduced new rules such as the possibility of introducing a risk equalization scheme, should the need for it arise.
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