equalization

equalize | Business English

equalize
verb[ T ]
(UK alsoequalise)uk /ˈiːkwəlaɪz/us
to make laws or treatment the same for all people or companies in a group or place:
The latest proposals would implement appropriate measures to equalize the conditions of global trade.
equalize taxes/rates/payments

Examples of equalize

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However, in contexts with affirmative action programs, these traits are simultaneously socially equalizing or advantageous.
Moreover, within religious communities, worldly goods were equalized and diminished in order to lessen the distractions of temporal comforts and to deny them.
In the home, most things could not easily be equalized or shared with society at large - most significantly, the family.
Also, the assumed racial difference in fetal abnormality would have to be equalized quite suddenly at week 20 for the environmental hypothesis to be maintained.
The equalizing lottery equalizes chances by incorporating the mechanism into the decision-making procedure.
Thus, natural resources have an equalizing effect on the distribution of total rural income.
Points along their frontier require that goods prices be equalized across countries, and that global pollution be chosen efficiently.
Compensation equalizes or redresses a balance, and so, to speak of 'fair compensation' is entirely sensible.
I proposed a solution: equalizing party size, by making large parties small.
When the motives, intentions, cost, and probability of harm are more or less equalized, the disparity of blame is much less clear.
Optimal policy equalizes the post-tax return of private capital and the return on public infrastructure.
Also, the nominal wage rate is equalized across both islands and countries.
The terms "homogenizing" and "equalizing" will mediate between the computations on the one hand and the program, the available transformations of fractions, on the other.
As we already know, "equalizing" refers to the step in the procedure that produces an equal denominator, one common to all the fractions involved.
The authors show that the adjustment rule which maximizes the steady-state utility of a representative individual equalizes marginal and average return to social security contributions.
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