[ noun ] lack of equality <noun.attribute> the growing inequality between rich and poor
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.
The economists then used six different methods of measuring income inequality, applying them to the same group of workers, and found that the United States was the most unequal of the five countries by four of the methods.
It's a freedom agenda," Jackson said in an interview. "Where we once marched and took the steps necessary to end racial inequality by law, we must now end economic inequality by law.
It's a freedom agenda," Jackson said in an interview. "Where we once marched and took the steps necessary to end racial inequality by law, we must now end economic inequality by law.
A year later they won again with three 1977 purchases: Kenny Dalglish, bought for a British record fee, Graeme Souness and Alan Hansen. The pattern of the next 15 years was set. The financial inequality increased in 1983.
However sweeping the legal changes, apartheid will leave a legacy of mistrust, prejudice and economic inequality that may take decades to overcome.
A Westinghouse spokesman said the new policy remains in effect until, in the opinion of management, the inequality of the social, economic and political conditions in South Africa are significantly changed.
"The increase in inequality in the United States is well documented," said Gordon Green, assistant chief of the Housing and Household Economic Statistics Division of the bureau and one of the authors of the study.
The problem is that poverty and inequality cannot be removed simply by moving away from this repressive system to a non-racial democratic state.
But the US alternative - falling real wages for the unskilled, greater inequality and lower welfare benefits - can hardly be more palatable to EC governments.
But I don't think there's any question that the measures show some increase in inequality over the past 15 years.
The shift towards greater personal choice and responsibility ought to have won praise from clergy and other arbiters of the nation's morals, even if it did result in slightly greater inequality.
There's a widespread feeling, for instance, that income inequality is somehow bad.
The demands of the inmates at Loos-Les-Lille were never clear-cut, but prison officials said the complaints centered on the slowness and reported inequality of the justice system.
Lawson does not deny that capitalism relies on self interest and that it promotes inequality.
Speaking through an interpreter, he said the danger of perestroika was that it might create economic inequality.
They contend that economic inequality will preserve de facto apartheid.
Most inequality in the UK is not determined either by work or talent, but by prior advantage.
There was also very little increase in pay inequality.
That brings promise of the two deadliest sins of capitalism, unemployment and inflation, along with the third sin, which is income inequality.
America must never surrender to inequality.
We see, for instance, Mr. Bell meeting with a rather dodgy Dalai Lama and with the Maharishi Mahesh Yogi, both of whom are vaguely curious about the spiritual implications of his famous inequality.
Player union power in the last 20 years has actually produced greater inequality in pay, contrary to its presumed intent and certainly all its rhetoric.
Is that kind of inequality fundamentally wrong? There are also more mundane reasons for regarding specially high taxes on the wealthy with scepticism.
He also has pledged to end the country's confrontational politics and violent regional divisions and to redress social and economic inequality.
It partly reflects a confusion between growing inequality and economic decline.
If anything, inequality is widening.
Since the 1970s, there has been a large increase in the inequality of male earnings in the UK.
For a time the personal respect and affection of the then President Ronald Reagan for the then Mrs Margaret Thatcher did something to offset the manifest inequality between their two countries.