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  • 31amount to — [verb] add up to, become, come to, develop into, equal, mean, total * * * amount to [phrasal verb] amount to (something) 1 : to produce (a total) when added together The bill amounted to 10 dollars. They have debts amounting to thousands of… …

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  • 32amount — Synonyms and related words: account, add up, add up to, aggregate, amount to, amplitude, approach, batch, become, body, box score, budget, bulk, bunch, burden, caliber, cast, charge, chunk, clutch, come, come up to, compass, comprehend, comprise …

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  • 33equal — 1. adjective 1) lines of equal length Syn: identical, uniform, alike, like, the same, matching, equivalent, corresponding 2) equal treatment before the law Syn: impartial, non partisan …

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  • 34amount — /əˈmaʊnt / (say uh mownt) noun 1. quantity or extent: *it is still an offence in every state to possess any considerable amount of marihuana. –frank crowley and lorna cartwright, 1977. 2. the full effect, value, or import. 3. the sum total of two …

  • 35equal-field system — Chinese land distribution system, AD 485–8th century. Borrowed by Japan in 646, it lasted about a century there. Under the system, all adults were assigned a fixed amount of land; a portion of its produce was paid as taxes. On a person s death,… …

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  • 36amount to — (Roget s IV) v. Syn. add up to, equal, total, come to, reach, extend to, mount up to, run to, effect, aggregate, be equal to, be equivalent to, be tantamount to, approximate, check with, be equal in quantity to, total up to, sum up to, foot up to …

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  • 37equal time — an equal amount of time on the air, which radio and television licensees are required to offer to opposing candidates for public office and to those voicing diverging views on public referendums. [1960 65] * * * …

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  • 38equal — Synonyms and related words: accord, accordant, agent, agree, aligned, alike, alter ego, alternate, alternative, amount to, analogous, analogy, approach, at par, au pair, automatic, backup, balance, balanced, be parallel, beat, break even, brother …

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  • 39equal pay for equal work — salary equivalent to the amount of work one has done …

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  • 40equal — Alike; uniform; on the same plane or level with respect to efficiency, worth, value, amount, or rights. Word equal as used in law implies not identity but duality and the use of one thing as the measure of another. Poindexter v. Willis, 23 Ohio… …

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