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recent social justice buzzword made prominent in university-lexicon post-covid/blm/george floyd era political discourse in the west.
because, somehow, 'equality' was not inclusive enough!

just forget the fact the equity in mainstream discourse has always referred to valuation of assets
equalit--uhh-- equity for all!
equity by 11020anon March 17, 2023
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1. The value of the shares/stock issued by a company.

2. A branch of law that developed alongside the common law in order to fix some of the outright bullshit, injustice and unfairness present in the common law
1. This company doesn't have much equity, it must be financed through a lot of debt. If it doesn't produce enough cash flow from operations, they banks are coming to claim their interest and it's goind under.

2. Yo, did you hear how the common law courts tried to give the dude's house that he paid for to that skanky hoe just because her name was on the deed. Thank God that in Equity he was ruled to have some beneficial title in it. If the common law was the only system that existed, we'd all be anally raped in the snow and left to freeze.
Equity by RtotheOB May 21, 2005
How ignorant people spell equality.
"Yo obama is the best he gonna give us all equity."
"Unfortunately those stocks wouldn't be worth much"
"Na man, he gonna make us the same."
"Oh, you mean equality, dumbass."
equity by Dontrush August 3, 2009
noun

The amount of TV programming saved to a Tivo or Digital Video Recorder when the pause button is used--not to be confused with recorded TV programming which is saved on the Tivo or DVR indefinently. Equity only lasts up until the channel is changed or is 'spent' fast forwarding through commercials.

tivo dvr
I paused the TV 10 minutes ago and now I have enough equity so I probably won't have to sit through any commercials while I watch my favorite show. I can just fast forward right through them using my 10 minutes of equity.
Equity by vodka martini July 23, 2008
Often conflated with equality. Not a fan... But I do want free stuff so... 🤷 I'm not actually going to define it.
Iam "I didn't mention equity because I didn't think that it was relevant to my point. I also think that is they threw out 'equity' the leftist would have a more palatable position. But that's besides the point."

Hym "Oh, most definitely! I will spend my million dollars on drugs. But I need them according to a psychiatrist. So ha! Takes that!"
Equity by Hym Iam May 12, 2022

equity derivative 

(FINANCE) a financial derivative whose underlying asset is a stock. The simplest kinds include the equity swap and the option.

As opposed to currency derivatives, interest rate derivatives, commodity derivatives, and so on. An equity swap typically involves an "equity side" of the transaction AND something else, like interest rates or oil prices.

Equity derivatives can be written on indices (e.g., the S&P 500, the FTSE-100, NASDAQ) as well as on stocks. In fact, they are often bought "out of the money" by mutual fund managers as insurance against a catastrophic decline in the fund value.
One other reason that poison pills are back in favor is the growth of synthetic equity derivative swap transactions, where a “short party” agrees to pay a “long party” the cash flows from a particular amount of a target company’s stock. In exchange, the long party agrees to pay a fee and to cover any decrease in the market value of the stock ... Through such transactions, a long party can suddenly become a significant stockholder of a target company without warning.

--Dykema Gossett & Andrew H. Connor "The poison pill resurgence," Lexology (15 March 2010)
equity derivative by Abu Yahya April 15, 2010

Equity Marketing Inc 

Equity marketing inc was the name of the company that made scooby doo action figures from 1999-2003. It was later changed to POP rocket los Angelas. They are currently called character options inc. based in the UK.
My scooby doo figures are by equity marketing inc
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