MEANING
1. Make people, conditions, or quantities equal on a particular dimension.
2. Score enough to bring one team’s or player’s score level with the opponent’s.
Use it for
bringing treatment or conditions to the same level; distinguishing equal outcomes from fair processes; specifying which difference a comparison has removedStates equality on a specified dimension without equating sameness with fairness or complete comparability. Academic functions: Comparison / Contrast, Research / Methodology.
Words that belong together
- equalize access
- equalize conditions
- equalize treatment
On the page
The design attempts to equalize exposure time across groups without assuming that all other conditions are identical.
The policy seeks to equalize access to services rather than guarantee identical outcomes.
The match report records that the visitors equalized before the final interval.
The sports analysis distinguishes the probability of equalizing from the probability of eventually winning.
Nearby words
Word forms
- Base
- equalize
- Past tense
- equalized
- Past participle
- equalized
- Present participle
- equalizing
Full tense & aspect guide
- Present
- equalize
- Present continuous
- am/is/are equalizing
- Present perfect
- have/has equalized
- Present perfect continuous
- have/has been equalizing
- Past
- equalized
- Past continuous
- was/were equalizing
- Past perfect
- had equalized
- Past perfect continuous
- had been equalizing
- Future
- will equalize
- Future continuous
- will be equalizing
- Future perfect
- will have equalized
- Future perfect continuous
- will have been equalizing
Choose the auxiliary that agrees with your subject. These are constructions of one word, not separate entries.
Usage notes
Base equalize; third-person equalizes; simple past and past participle equalized; present participle equalizing. Equalise is the British spelling, not a second entry. General sense is transitive; sporting score sense is often intransitive. Register: neutral. Commonness: moderately common (qualitative editorial estimate, informed by dictionaries/corpus).
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