tantamount

samaa merkitsevä puhekieltä To amount to as much; to be equivalent.

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For end thereof, not despondency but madness : for when Cossey understood that Hobday had called his wife a tantamount, he waited for him outside, and gave him what he called a pair of clippers over the ear.

Its tantamount to fraud.''

In this view, disagreement and treason are tantamount.

the certainty that delay, under these circumstances, was tantamount to ruin

(..) expecting the woman to take her attacker into physical custody is tantamount to preventing the arrest. If she could handle him, she probably would not need to call the police in the first place.