tantamount

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Customer data is tantamount, and any storage solutions provider who acts so cavalier is basically saying "Don't buy our product."

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  1. adjective Equivalent in effect or value: a request tantamount to a demand.

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  • Craving what I cannot have (what does not even exist) is tantamount, it seems, to craving death. —  F ;SF; - vol 101 issue 06 - December 2001
  • At the time of the 2002 elections, Labour's leisure spokesman, Peter Johnson, publicly called me a liar in the local press, saying that transferring them to a mutual was tantamount to privatization. —  Jock's Place
  • You'd think that if Burris wasn't smart enough, someone his staff would've had the brains to suggest that being tainted by the Blagojevich brush might be tantamount to political suicide. —  Malnurtured Snay
  • A person without an email address is tantamount to a person without an online home, which is one big shameful truth for this generation. —  Find Free Articles - ArticlesBase
  • This will be tantamount to growth without savings and investment. —  Asia Times Online
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  1. From obsolete tantamount, an equivalent, from Anglo-Norman tant amunter, to amount to as much : tant, so much, so great (from Latin tantum, neuter of tantus, from tam, so; see to- in Indo-European roots) + amunter, to amount to, variant of Old French amonter; see amount.

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  1. from Old French (Anglo-French) tant, so much, as much (from Latin tantus, so much), + amonter, amount: see amount.
  2. from tantamount, v. Some association with paramount, adjective, prob. affected this adjective use.
 

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/ˈtæntəmaʊnt/
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