relative to

Idioms  

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.

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Example Sentences

Arya’s neutral rating of Texas Instruments stems from the company’s slower overall sales growth relative to peers.

From MarketWatch

This could also have allowed the others to set their ambient temperature compression ratio higher than 16:1 so that it was at the limit at a higher temperature, and so improve the performance of their engines relative to Mercedes.

From BBC

Instead, he sees the recent declines in BDC shares as “as platform level derisking that has produced an outsized near-term value proposition in higher-quality vehicles now trading at discounted” valuations relative to NAV.

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For participants ages 20 to 24 who would otherwise remain in a target-date fund, using a managed account increased projected retirement savings by roughly 10% relative to pay.

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Employees just starting in a plan who adopted a managed account were projected to retire with about 8% more savings relative to pay than target-date fund users and nearly 16% more than self-directed investors.

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