equivalent amount
collocation in Englishmeaningsofequivalentandamount
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equivalent
adjective
uk/ɪˈkwɪv.əl.ənt/us/ɪˈkwɪv.əl.ənt/
having the same amount, value, purpose, ...
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amount
noun[C]
uk/əˈmaʊnt/us/əˈmaʊnt/
a collection or mass, especially of something that cannot ...
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(Definition ofequivalentandamountfrom theCambridge English Dictionary© Cambridge University Press)
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This is equivalent to the loss in revenue from agriculture due to cultivating anequivalentamountof fodder obtained from forests on agricultural land.
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In this connection it is interesting to note that 100 g of barley contains the same essential caloric value as anequivalentamountof wheat.
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It is, however, advantageous for defendant to incur costs by making litigation expenditures rather than paying anequivalentamountto plaintiff.
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Stopped-flow circular dichroism shows the formation of anequivalentamountof helix confirming that the two terminal segments exist as helices in the intermediate.
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Self-harvesters probably would not have spent anequivalentamountof money to purchase the same amount of produce.
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This layout would have allotted a roughlyequivalentamountof space to each voice, and an analysis of the composition's structure will reveal that this is certainly needed.
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There was no statistically significant difference in the total number of words that students produced in anequivalentamountof time in the two types of conferences.
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You could not seize anequivalentamountin those cases and the difference had to be made up out of reparations.
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Supposing a farmer sells 1,000 bushels of wheat, will he have anequivalentamountin wheat offals?
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It is required that each tin of dried milk shall bear a declaration of theequivalentamountof liquid milk contained.
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But that would be matched, under the relief provided by the clause, by a tax deduction against those emoluments of anequivalentamount.
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Any land taken for public utility purposes must be replaced by anequivalentamount.
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The urban programme has levered in at least anequivalentamountof private investment in those areas.
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In only two of those 13 instances has the amount been larger than that, and in only one was theequivalentamountasked for.
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That would make anequivalentamountof information available to them.
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From the professional game anequivalentamountis taken, and yet they get nothing.
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Anequivalentamounthas now been removed from their quota, not just for one year, but permanently.
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Theequivalentamountpaid to farmers in 1992, which was the last year in which market support measures were predominant, was £25.45 million.
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We have seen it increase by roughly anequivalentamountsince then.
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