What's the difference between equitable and requitable?
Equitable
Definition:
(a.) Possessing or exhibiting equity; according to natural right or natural justice; marked by a due consideration for what is fair, unbiased, or impartial; just; as an equitable decision; an equitable distribution of an estate; equitable men.
(a.) That can be sustained or made available or effective in a court of equity, or upon principles of equity jurisprudence; as, an equitable estate; equitable assets, assignment, mortgage, etc.
Example Sentences:
(1) A national plan is proposed for the equitable allocation of extrarenal organs, with particular reference to the liver.
(2) "GNH is an aspiration, a set of guiding principles through which we are navigating our path towards a sustainable and equitable society.
(3) "Unless and until vulnerabilities are addressed effectively, and all people enjoy the opportunity to share in human development progress, development advances will be neither equitable nor sustainable," Clark said, noting that protection for vulnerable people should be included in the sustainable development goals, which will replace the millennium development goals when they expire next year.
(4) Like them, Benjamin is not a revolutionary; he doesn't want to make a new, more free or equitable society.
(5) Well, news from the commuters and the rail users is that we don't like it, and we want a cheaper more equitable service.
(6) It represents a temporary drop in traditionally defined living standards, in exchange for a more equitable and sustainable future – a concept that our grandparents' generation embraced, as they endured rationing but also produced the NHS, social housing and social security.
(7) Continuous modification of the core curriculum in a systematic and equitable manner is essential to meeting the needs of future graduates.
(8) Instead, it was to find out if such abortion was obtainable equitably across Canada, and the answer is "no."
(9) O’Brien’s successor as archbishop of St Andrews and Edinburgh, Leo Cushley, said: “I am confident that the decision of the Holy Father is fair, equitable and proportionate.
(10) Energy and Climate Change Secretary Edward Davey said: "While respecting Ineos's right to make this decision, it is regrettable that both parties have not managed to negotiate a fair and equitable settlement that delivers a viable business model for the plant.
(11) This study indicates the need for further analyses of activities by differing patient groupings to facilitate rational and equitable health care planning.
(12) Tanzania should also balance the distribution of resources between urban and rural so as to comply with the objective of the national health policy of comprehensive basic health services equitably to all within the limited available resources and to be able to reach the ultimate goal of health for all the people in the country by the year 2,000.
(13) I will propose a new school funding model from the commonwealth which will be flatter, simpler, fairer to all the states and territories and equitable between students,” he said.
(14) A reliable delivery system and effective management of the system determine the availability and equitable distribution of vaccines.
(15) Greece thus lacked a mechanism to negotiate a social compact to cut wages, pensions, and other obligations in an equitable way.
(16) The rights of individuals to human dignity and charity are well established and could contribute to a peaceful solution in an equitable and humane society.
(17) A laundry facility supplying linen to several hospitals needs to keep a good account of the numbers of different types of linen which enter and leave its premises so as to allocate the costs fairly and equitably among member hospitals.
(18) Fortunately, it is eminently possible to transform our economy so that it is less resource-intensive, and to do it in ways that are equitable, with the most vulnerable protected and the most responsible bearing the bulk of the burden.
(19) So, in the time left to me as editor, I thought I would try to harness the Guardian’s best resources to describe what is happening and what – if we do nothing – is almost certain to occur, a future that one distinguished scientist has termed as “incompatible with any reasonable characterisation of an organised, equitable and civilised global community”.
(20) These would put workers and governments on an equitable footing and give them the chance to establish adequate social protection.
Requitable
Definition:
(a.) That may be requited.
Example Sentences:
(1) After a requited, mutually beneficial four years, he just wanted to go home.
(2) He is desperate to be shadow chancellor, the second most important role on the opposition frontbench after your own, and he will be unforgiving if you don't requite his ambition.
(3) She said that to keep prices within households' reach, price inflation needed to be kept 1.8% a year, which would requite 210,000 new homes.
(4) However, such an approach would requite costly federal subsidies and measures to force down university tuition fees: intervention that could alienate some voters and leave Democrats vulnerable to charges that they are seeking to make taxpayers subsidise what are often lucrative college degree courses.