equate something to something—make two things equal:
- A new regulation required them to equate road workers’ wages to those paid to other workers.
equate something with something—
1. consider two things to be identical:
- Why socialized medicine should be equated with socialist medicine I fail to understand.
2. = equate something to something:
- It was traditional right up until the war to equate the wages of constables with that of agricultural laborers.