functional equivalent

Most recently, he served in a role that was the functional equivalent of chief financial officer.

It is the functional equivalent of a gun to their heads.

They are the functional equivalent of something you might cook with in the yard.

The truth was, the trip to Mars had been the functional equivalent of a long train ride.

Given the context, it was the functional equivalent of lighting a cigarette.

It would have been a functional equivalent with a Macintosh flavour.

Archipelago is the functional equivalent of Amazon.com for selling stocks.

Thus, the surpluses operate as the functional equivalent of savings.

It is the functional equivalent of the Western-style studio apartment.

A federal judge called it "the functional equivalent of stabbing Goldman in the back."

A translator now looks for a functional equivalent that is meaning-based.

It would be the functional equivalent of a massive tax cut for a crisis-torn global economy.

At that time, message discipline on Iraq was the functional equivalent of radio silence."

Rationale This section states that electronic documents are the functional equivalent of their written counterparts.

But they said the commission might one day have to consider much Internet traffic "the functional equivalent of radio and television broadcasts."

All eight bits are sent to and interpreted in the associated control unit (or its functional equivalent).

This suggests that these two forms of temporary labour are not usually functional equivalents.

After all, it has taken decades for the nation's capital to divide into the functional equivalent of armed camps.

The Cyberats are the functional equivalent of modern day hackers.

“Deciding not to cut spending is the functional equivalent of spending more.

Neither the provision of contemporary hardware or a functional equivalent is trivial.

It says life begins at fertilization, cloning or the functional equivalent thereof—something to that effect.

Elements combine into associations, the functional equivalents of which are ecosystems.

Such subsidies, and American loan programs that amount to their functional equivalent, need to be phased out.