parity

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par·i·ty /ˈpærəti/ noun [uncountableU]

1 EQUALthe state of being equal, especially having equal pay, rights, or power 〔尤指薪金、权利或权力的〕相同，相等，同等 SYN equality

parity with

Women workers are demanding parity with their male colleagues.

女职工在要求与男同事享有同等的待遇。

2. technicalPEC equality between the units of money from two different countries 〔两个不同国家的货币单位的〕平价，等价

Examples from the Corpus

parity• The Soviets' aim was to achieve parity in nuclear capability.• The situation has improved substantially since then and girls have achieved parity with boys as far as staying on at school.• Middle class blacks in the US have not yet achieved parity with whites in graduate school entries.• Wages and prices were converted at parity.• Part-time workers are demanding parity with their full-time colleagues.• When you have parity of power, that promotes understanding and the realization that all employees are interdependent.• Kelly said the caucus is also seeking medical parity between men and women.• Some studies they suggest may have failed to detect an effect of parity because they did not concentrate on this risk period.• Other policies had tended to limit equality or parity between schools at the same time.• However, rates of placenta previa increased markedly with age and with parity when age was controlled.

parity with• Employees at NBC want pay parity with their counterparts at TV networks.

From Longman Business Dictionary

paritypar·i·ty /ˈpærəti/ noun (plural parities)

1[uncountableU] the state of being the same as or equal to something else

parity with

The country is hoping to move toward economic parity with (=having the same wealth as) the rest of Europe.

The price cuts bring the company’s prices into parity with those charged by AT&T.

2[uncountableU]COMPUTING a system for finding mistakes when information is sent from one computer or another

Parity is used in many hardware applications where detecting an error is helpful.

3[uncountableU]FINANCE when one unit of a currency or COMMODITY (=oil, metal, farm product etc) is worth the same as one unit of another

Platinum prices could decline further, perhaps reaching parity with gold.

4[countableC]ECONOMICS a figure representing what a particular currency is worth in another currency at a particular time

One of the parities they will be checking is the dollar/yen rate.

Origin parity

(1500-1600) Latin paritas, from par; → PAR

Chinese

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