- present tense form of equate (3rd person singular).
equates
Example Sentences
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The cuts - the steepest since 2022 - will mainly affect its human resources, legal, product and technology teams and equates to around 6% of its total workforce.
From BBC ● Oct. 14, 2026
Canada has said that its deal with China equates to less than 3% of the country’s current new-car sales and that it expects the deal to catalyze new Chinese joint-venture investments there.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 9, 2026
The Ten Towns new tariff will be effective from 1 October and equates to an extra £7 per month on the average bill for customers.
From BBC ● Sep. 4, 2026
That equates to 48 downstream U.S. jobs for every one job at a smelter — and that includes more than 170 extrusion plants in 36 states.
From MarketWatch ● Aug. 31, 2026
Michael Frayn, in an afterword to his play Copenhagen, notes that several words in German–Unsicherheit, Unschärfe, Unbestimmtheit–have been used by various translators, but that none quite equates to the English uncertainty.
From "A Short History of Nearly Everything" by Bill Bryson
