Definition: 1. Equal in value, amount, meaning, importance, etc. 2. A thing, amount, word, etc. that is equivalent to something else.
Use 'equivalent' in a sentence:
1. That is perfectly equivalent, and equally unambiguous statement.
2. Now for size, that's the equivalent of 7000 Olympic swimming pools in length and in places up to 100m deep.
3. He had to feed his family on the equivalent of four hundred pounds a month and, with five mouths to feed, he found this very hard.
4. The calotype could be made in series, and was thus the equivalent of an etching or an engraving.
5. I was all too glad to be paid the equivalent of $10 per program and fed steamed pork buns during the taping.
6. Mr. Li's pay is the equivalent of about $80 a month.
7. You will receive the full equivalent of your money.
8. Why mate with a second-class beau who cannot be bothered to bring you the fishy equivalent of roses and diamonds?
9. The male equivalent is, of course, the exercise widower1.
10. The information served up by commercial television is usually poor in fiber2 and high in the information equivalent of fat and sugar.
11. By pumping more than 1 million barrels a day from the reserve for the next two three decades, lobbyists claim, the nation could cut back on imports equivalent to all shipments to the U.
12. The hardening function was formed by incorporating an equivalent plastic deviator strain and a volume strain.
13. Many people believe that being wealthy is equivalent to gaining success.
14. The chairs next sought women in business who had the equivalent of CEO experience.
15. This word has no satisfactory equivalent in English.
16. That approach will eliminate most cord-cutting concerns — but what about their wireless equivalent, jamming?
17. Parents who allow their children to be exploited in this way face, in addition to as many as six years in prison, the equivalent of a $500 fine.
18. He had to feed his family on the equivalent of seven hundred dollars a month and, with five mouths to feed, he found this very hard.
19. One kilometre is equivalent to two li.
20. Every gesture of the hand is going to be the equivalent of a quarter note.
21. The myth that labor rates and labor costs are equivalent is supported by business journalists, who frequently confound the two.
22. Your kid should be in possession of everything and equivalent quality of life.
23. Pissed – Americans may think this means upset. But in the UK it is the equivalent of being drunk 。
24. I changed my dollars for the equivalent amount in pounds.
25. The caffeine, the equivalent of two strong cups of coffee, was sufficient to reverse this effect, with some cyclists even displaying increased eye movement speeds.
26. Some American words have no British equivalents.
27. Even the cheapest car costs the equivalent of 70 years' salary for a government worker.
28. The gangsters offered him a sum equivalent to a whole year's earnings.
29. Call it the courtship equivalent to the slow-food movement. Call it a backlash against point and click matchmaking.
30. Eight kilometres is roughly equivalent to five miles.
31. Feb 21: Most provinces and equivalent administrative units started to lower their public health emergency response level.
32. Under these conditions the conservation of energy is equivalent to the conservation of mass.
33. Nodding your head is equivalent to saying "yes".
34. Unfortunately, for maximum benefit, people would probably have to reduce their caloric intake by roughly thirty per cent, equivalent to dropping from 2,500 calories a day to 1,750.
35. San Diego's municipal code, for instance, requires property owners to maintain landscape and vegetation standards—or face a penalty equivalent to the cost of hiring a private contractor to do so.
36. Advising non-English-speaking families to speak only English is equivalent to telling them not to communicate with or interact with their children.
37. His party has just suffered the equivalent of a near-fatal heart attack.
38. Send € 20 or the equivalent in your own currency.
39. Watson makes the assumption that muscular activity is equivalent to thinking.
40. Converting metric measurements to U.S. equivalents is easy.
41. The German 'Gymnasium' is the closest equivalent to the grammar school in England.
42. It is common to ask for the equivalent of a month's rent as a deposit.
43. Ethiopia, for instance uses the equivalent of just twenty kilos of oil per head a year.
44. Breathing such polluted air is the equivalent of smoking ten cigarettes a day.
45. The most elementary form of moral reasoning—the ethical equivalent of learning to crawl—is to weigh others' interests against one's own.
46. To mathematicians, a chair is equivalent to an apple; a mug—at least, one with a handle—is like a doughnut.
47. If they want to change an item in the budget, they will have to propose equivalent cuts elsewhere.
48. It is anticipated that the equivalent of 192 full-time jobs will be lost.
49. The helmets are designed to withstand impacts equivalent to a fall from a bicycle.
50. Parents eat the equivalent of almost a pepperoni pizza of saturated fat each week.
51. These are not similar or equivalent to what happens when man ages.
52. There is one stubborn question for which archaeology has yet to provide any answers: how did the Lapita accomplish the ancient equivalent of a moon landing, many times over?
53. The equivalent of two tablespoons of polyunsaturated oils is ample each day.
54. Steamed dumpling contains low calorie, equivalent to only 70% of the latter, and lower fat and carbohydrate than rice.
55. Zip disks could be used to store the equivalent of three music CDs.
