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equity

[ek-wi-tee] / ˈɛk wɪ ti /


NOUN
money invested in possession
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"Tree deserts are places of critically low tree equity where communities are missing out on the many benefits trees provide," said the charity's tree equity lead Challinor.

From BBC • May 24, 2026

“There’s just not been that much supply in the market in a long time, and so it’s another downward pressure on the equity market as a whole.”

From MarketWatch • May 24, 2026

Direct investing is a natural evolution for family offices, moving from private equity to deal-by-deal underwriting via boutiques.

From Barron's • May 23, 2026

He sits—or more often on opening days, stands—in the middle of Morgan Stanley’s equity trading floor calling out to dozens of sales traders the price a stock is on track to open at.

From The Wall Street Journal • May 23, 2026

People with first mortgages had vast amounts of equity locked up in their houses; why shouldn’t this untapped equity, too, be securitized?

From "The Big Short" by Michael Lewis




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