relative to

1. Correspondent or proportionate to, as in Relative to its size, Boston has a great many universities, or It's important to get all the facts relative to the collision. Another form of this idiom is, meaning “in reference or with regard to,” as in Demand is high in relation to supply, or That argument changes nothing with relation to our plans for hiring workers. The usages with relative date from the second half of the 1700s, those with relation from the late 1500s.

Example Sentences

That would push up the old age dependency ratio - the proportion of older people over the age of 65 relative to people aged 16 to 64 - from around 30% today to almost 50% by 2070.

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The agreement included an initiative for countries to collaborate on a voluntary basis to reduce carbon emissions and strive to limit global warming to 1.5C relative to pre-industrial levels.

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The stocks aren’t cheap relative to near-term earnings estimates, but Naji sees “plenty of pent-up” demand as well as a high likelihood of beats and raises over the next few quarters as the new products manifest more in financials.

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“The pot of money available to push out all these projects and investments has shrunk, relative to 2022 and 2023,” he said.

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If the central bank holds borrowing costs steady, that would make Bitcoin and its peers less appealing relative to interest-bearing investments such as bonds and savings accounts.

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