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Comparable Comparability Roughly Similar Amount Importance Wages Comparably

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Something that is c_________ to something else is roughly similar, for example in amount or importance .Something that is comparable to something else is roughly similar, for example in amount or importance .
...paying the same wages to men and women for work of comparable value.
Farmers were meant to get an income comparable to that of townspeople.
The risk it poses is comparable with smoking just one cigarette every year.
...to assess a number of comparably qualified students.
The rises are the result of a comparability study.
word comparable
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Something that is comparable to something else is roughly similar, for example in amount or importance .
...paying the same wages to men and women for work of comparable value.
Farmers were meant to get an income comparable to that of townspeople.
The risk it poses is comparable with smoking just one cigarette every year.
...to assess a number of comparably qualified students.
The rises are the result of a comparability study.
If two or more things are comparable, they are of the same kind or are in the same situation, and so they can reasonably be compared.
In other comparable countries real wages increased much more rapidly.
By contrast, the comparable figure for the Netherlands is 16 per cent.
Published rates are not always directly comparable.
The result is a lack of comparability between the accounts of similar companies.
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cefr-level C1

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