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Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
inequality
noun
COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES
gender bias/inequality/discrimination (=when one gender is treated unfairly)
▪ Her research investigates gender bias in the classroom.
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ ADJECTIVE
economic
▪ Markets intensify economic inequality and add to the numbers of the poor. 3.
▪ Democracy cares about capitalistic economic inequality and is working to reduce it.
▪ A comprehensive review of quantitative cross-national studies on economic inequality and political violence.
▪ Such poverty compounds the economic and domestic inequalities typically experienced by women over a lifetime and magnifies such inequalities in old age.
▪ A further cause for unease is that adherence to a free market philosophy combined with reduced taxation has increased economic inequality.
▪ Unequal educational gains have further increased social and economic inequalities between regions and classes and have contributed to ethnic and political tensions.
▪ Hence the Chicago human capital school comes closest to diffusing economic inequality as an issue.
▪ An increase in economic inequality between rich and poor countries.
great
▪ When the dimension of gender is added, we can see even greater disadvantage and inequality for females.
▪ Their conclusions, however, were broadly similar: great inequality and great poverty were inevitable in the absence of great reform.
▪ More thoughtful Conservatives are aware that a movement towards greater inequality can not continue indefinitely in a democratic society.
▪ Democracy holds out beliefs and references groups that are not compatible with great inequalities.
▪ This rethinking is even more necessary for the assumption that the growth of exchange implies greater inequality.
▪ The greatest inequality between the two countries is for mature students.
▪ There cold be very great inequalities between individuals when measured over a whole life.
racial
▪ Questions of peace and war, global distributive justice, gender and racial inequality, and environmental degradation concern us all.
social
▪ Generally, social inequalities are presumed to be justified, often in terms of tradition.
▪ The chapter began by posing the possibility of an egalitarian society, a society without social inequality.
▪ Welfare services are given a promotional role taking into account social inequalities and the need for universal provisions.
▪ They argue that Marx's class analysis is too simplistic to account adequately for the complexity of social inequality.
▪ Such beliefs serve to explain the system to its members: they make social inequality appear rational and reasonable.
▪ Economic and social inequalities are viewed as positive and constructive forces.
▪ They offer no other means of solving this problem and imply that social inequality is an inevitable feature of human society.
■ NOUN
class
▪ But its impact on class inequality ... is to sharpen class division.
▪ In the absence of class inequalities, the state serves all groups and there is no cause for further conflict among groups.
▪ Social class inequalities, however, remain as strong as ever despite the enormous growth in education provision and expenditure.
▪ Will current class inequalities in health continue to be important?
▪ The bus journey alone is eloquent of class inequality.
▪ Is class inequality in any ways reduced?
▪ Social class inequalities in housing will therefore be greater than they are in health or education.
▪ More limited forms of resistance such as normal trade union activity do not alter the fundamental relationships of class inequality in capitalist society.
gender
▪ Yet finding out what happens in higher education is of utmost importance in understanding the patterns of gender inequality that exist.
▪ Whatever changes may be occurring in their work as marketers, this gender inequality persists.
▪ According to Angie Romorola, gender inequalities are very well entrenched.
▪ He was untiring in his efforts to overcome racial divisions and gender inequalities.
▪ She demonstrates that policies of amelioration will do in more than touch the surface unless fundamental gender inequalities are addressed.
▪ The significance of the class and gender inequalities which are intertwined with the racism that black students encounter is thus underplayed.
▪ However, it is generally recognized that gender inequality in education is in many respects different from inequality of class.
health
▪ Unfortunately, these improvements have not been shared equally and health inequalities within and among countries are entrenched.
▪ Discussion Our evidence suggests that a new approach to social stratification is required to assess health inequalities in childhood.
▪ Second, the health improvements have not been shared equally and health inequalities among and within countries remain entrenched.
▪ And it will have a target to narrow health inequalities between social groups and areas.
▪ Such data, therefore, represent clear evidence of health inequalities among children aged 1-15.
▪ These new challenges will potentially worsen regional and national health inequalities.
▪ Contemporary public health must therefore encompass the interrelated tasks of reducing social and health inequalities and achieving health-sustaining environments.
income
▪ In other words, general levels of income inequality have a positive effect on the incidence of political violence.
▪ Over time in unfettered markets income inequalities grow.
▪ The bias in the contributions is towards quite strong views of equity if not egalitarianism, but different income inequality ideologies exist.
▪ We shall pursue the debate over income inequality in Chapter 37.
▪ Thirdly, there has been a widening of income inequalities among households with children.
▪ Government has assumed the responsibility for ameliorating income inequality in our society.
▪ However, when considering income inequality, it is the income distribution among individuals that has emerged as most useful.
▪ Their comparative analysis tests the linear and non-linear forms of the relationship between income inequality and political violence.
■ VERB
grow
▪ Between the late 1960s and early 1980s the population of Porto Alegre grew rapidly while inequalities widened.
▪ Macro-economic statistics can conceal growing inequalities within countries.
increase
▪ Critics of popular capitalism argue that it is a programme for increasing inequality and poverty.
▪ A further cause for unease is that adherence to a free market philosophy combined with reduced taxation has increased economic inequality.
▪ Unequal educational gains have further increased social and economic inequalities between regions and classes and have contributed to ethnic and political tensions.
▪ Private sector led regeneration has profoundly increased the inequality of access to both private and public goods in the area.
▪ The Gini coefficients in Table 9-2 suggest increasing inequality between 1975/6 and 1981/2 and constant inequality between 1981/2 and 1984/5.
▪ Some said it has increased the inequalities of income within countries, as well as between poor and rich ones.
reduce
▪ An equal opportunity policy, reducing a, would, for given earnings inequality, reduce the inequality of consumption.
▪ Using political power to reduce market inequalities requires a high-wire balancing act.
▪ The task, then, of any government attempting to reduce inequalities in the geographical distribution of services is very difficult.
▪ While the policies in a socialist state attempt to reduce inequalities significantly, they do not aim for total economic equality.
▪ His prescriptions sound modest: Cushion people against economic shocks, widen the circle of prosperity, reduce inequality.
▪ Hence the welfare state contained but did not reduce social inequality.
▪ Where modern values have been incorporated they have often not reduced inequality.
▪ The last forty years have shown that simply increasing the volume of services does not necessarily reduce social or geographical inequalities.
widen
▪ To back this up they claim that a reliance on market forces has widened pay inequalities and also significantly increased unemployment.
▪ The government has to address widening inequality.
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
▪ Most of the complaints centered on the inequality of the justice system.
▪ signs of economic inequality
▪ Social inequality is likely to increase in the 21st century.
▪ Social inequality tended to increase rather than lessen in the 1980s.
▪ The report looks at inequality in education.
▪ The statistics show the growing inequality of income in America.
▪ The study shows that large inequalities still exist between men and women.
▪ There are still a lot of inequalities in society.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
▪ An equal opportunity policy, reducing a, would, for given earnings inequality, reduce the inequality of consumption.
▪ And inequality of income is one reason inflation is nonexistent.
▪ In spite of these considerations, Weber certainly did regard capitalism as a class society - economic relations form the basis of inequality.
▪ It can therefore be argued that biological differences become biological inequalities only to the extent that they are defined as such.
▪ Some economists attribute much of the rising wage inequality in this country to the shift in favor of the most skilled workers.
▪ The inequality in life chances has therefore intentionally been reinforced in old age.
▪ Their conclusions, however, were broadly similar: great inequality and great poverty were inevitable in the absence of great reform.
▪ While the policies in a socialist state attempt to reduce inequalities significantly, they do not aim for total economic equality.
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Inequality

Inequality \In`e*qual"i*ty\, n.; pl. Inequalities. [L. inaequalitas.]

  1. The quality of being unequal; difference, or lack of equality, in any respect; lack of uniformity; disproportion; unevenness; disparity; diversity; as, an inequality in size, stature, numbers, power, distances, motions, rank, property, etc.

    There is so great an inequality in the length of our legs and arms as makes it impossible for us to walk on all four.
    --Ray.

    Notwithstanding which inequality of number, it was resolved in a council of war to fight the Dutch fleet.
    --Ludlow.

    Sympathy is rarely strong where there is a great inequality of condition.
    --Macaulay.

  2. Unevenness; lack of levelness; the alternate rising and falling of a surface; as, the inequalities of the surface of the earth, or of a marble slab, etc.

    The country is cut into so many hills and inequalities as renders it defensible.
    --Addison.

  3. Variableness; changeableness; inconstancy; lack of smoothness or equability; deviation; unsteadiness, as of the weather, feelings, etc.

    Inequality of air is ever an enemy to health.
    --Bacon.

  4. Disproportion to any office or purpose; inadequacy; competency; as, the inequality of terrestrial things to the wants of a rational soul.
    --South.

  5. (Alg.) An expression consisting of two unequal quantities, with the sign of inequality (.gt. or .lt.) between them; as, the inequality 2 .lt. 3, or 4 .gt. 1.

  6. (Astron.) An irregularity, or a deviation, in the motion of a planet or satellite from its uniform mean motion; the amount of such deviation.

Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
inequality

early 15c., "difference of rank or dignity," from Old French inequalité (14c.) and directly from Medieval Latin inaequalitas, from Latin inaequalis "unequal," from in- "not, opposite of" (see in- (1)) + aequalis "equal" (see equal).

Wiktionary
inequality

n. An unfair, not equal, state.

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WordNet
inequality

n. lack of equality; "the growing inequality between rich and poor" [ant: equality]

Wikipedia
Inequality (mathematics)
Not to be confused with Inequation. "Less than" and "Greater than" redirect here. For the use of the "<" and ">" signs as punctuation, see Bracket. For the UK insurance brand "More Th>n", see More Than (company).

In mathematics, an inequality is a relation that holds between two values when they are different (see also: equality).

  • The notation a ≠ b means that a is not equal to b.
It does not say that one is greater than the other, or even that they can be compared in size.

If the values in question are elements of an ordered set, such as the integers or the real numbers, they can be compared in size.

  • The notation a < b means that a is less than b.
  • The notation a > b means that a is greater than b.
In either case, a is not equal to b. These relations are known as strict inequalities. The notation a < b may also be read as "a is strictly less than b".

In contrast to strict inequalities, there are two types of inequality relations that are not strict:

  • The notation a ≤ b means that a is less than or equal to b (or, equivalently, not greater than b, or at most b); "not greater than" can also be represented by the symbol for "greater than" bisected by a vertical line, "not."
  • The notation a ≥ b means that a is greater than or equal to b (or, equivalently, not less than b, or at least b),; "not less than" can also be represented by the symbol for "less than" bisected by a vertical line, "not."

In engineering sciences, a less formal use of the notation is to state that one quantity is "much greater" than another, normally by several orders of magnitude.

  • The notation a ≪ b means that a is much less than b. (In measure theory, however, this notation is used for absolute continuity, an unrelated concept.)
  • The notation a ≫ b means that a is much greater than b.
Inequality

Inequality may refer to:

In economics:

  • Economic inequality
  • Income inequality metrics
  • International inequality
    • List of countries by wealth inequality
    • List of countries by income inequality

In healthcare:

  • Health disparities
  • Healthcare inequality

In mathematics:

  • Inequality (mathematics)
  • Inequalities (book) (1934), a mathematics book by G. H. Hardy, J. E. Littlewood, and G. Pólya

In the social sciences:

  • Social inequality
  • Educational inequality
  • Gender inequality
  • Participation inequality
  • Racial inequality
  • Social stratification
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Usage examples of "inequality".

Whatever be the inequality in the hardness of the materials of which the rock consists, even in the case of pudding-stone, the surface is abraded so evenly as to leave the impression that a rigid rasp has moved over all the undulations of the land, advancing in one and the same direction and levelling all before it.

To what but a cultivation of the mechanical arts in a degree disproportioned to the presence of the creative faculty, which is the basis of all knowledge, is to be attributed the abuse of all invention for abridging and combining labour, to the exasperation of the inequality of mankind?

The advocate of equal rights is preoccupied by these opportunities for the abusive exercise of power, because from his point of view rights exercised in the interest of inequality have ceased to be righteous.

Having thus learned that equality in everything was the rule of the house, I went to work like the others and began to eat the soup out of the common dish, and if I did not complain of the rapidity with which my companions made it disappear, I could not help wondering at such inequality being allowed.

The port was open before them, and they glanced by church, palace, barge, mystick, and felucca, without the slightest inequality in their relative speed.

We there discoursed the Circulation of the Blood, the Valves in the Veins, the Copernican Hypothesis, the Nature of Comets, the new Stars, the Attendants on Jupiter, the Oval shape of Saturn, the inequalities and Selenography of the Moon .

This inequality depends on the centrifugal force of rotation, and on the spheroidal figure of the earth due to that rotation.

There was only one difficulty, and that was inequality, Don Clavijo being an impoverished knight and Princess Antonomasia the heiress, as I have said, to the kingdom.

Three recent attacks on inequalities in the effective voting power of persons residing in different geographical areas were likewise unsuccessful.

As the leaves in the whole family of the Acanthaceae stand either opposite one another or in whorls, and as these are of equal size, the great inequality between the first two leaves is a singular fact.

The same sort of computer program that plays checkers can also be made to solve theorems on inequalities such as that pictured here, where one is asked to prove that the angle ACE is less than ABE.

I hope and believe that if both the nation and the States would, in good faith, in their respective spheres do what they could in the way of improvements, what of inequality might be produced in one place might be compensated in another, and the sum of the whole might not be very unequal.

I saw the fingers and toes grasp the corners of the stones, worn clear of the mortar by the stress of years, and by thus using every projection and inequality move downwards with considerable speed, just as a lizard moves along a wall.

This kind of critique of feminism originated in the work of African-American critics who pointed out that academic feminism had reproduced the structures of patriarchal inequality within itself by excluding the voices and experiences of black women.

But this equality does not mean that one exchanges utility for utility in identical portions: one exchanges inequalities, which means that on both sides - and despite the fact that each element traded has an intrinsic utility - more value is acquired than was originally possessed.