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tantamount
1. adj. Equivalent in meaning or effect.
It's tantamount to fraud.
In this view, disagreement and treason are tantamount.
2. v. (obsolete) To amount to as much; to be equivalent.
3. n. (obsolete) Something which has the same value or amount (as something else). (attributive use passing into adjective, below)

Example Sentences

Then you demand to see the documents, which is tantamount to calling him a liar.  Last week's figures are tantamount to an oath of disclosure.  It is tantamount to a trade in patients and is simply abhorrent.  The power of a star on the set is tantamount to that of a potentate.

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