level the playing field

idiom

: to make a situation fair for everyone

revising the tax code to level the playing field for all companies

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Bruno Le Maire, the French finance minister, noted on Wednesday that the deficit between what Europe exports to China and what it imports had tripled over the last 15 years and that more needed to be done to level the playing field. —Alan Rappeport, New York Times, 18 Apr. 2024

Understanding poker psychology and strategies can level the playing field. —Julia Rafal-Baer, Forbes, 27 Mar. 2024

But, to get more funding into the hands of places like Farmington and Gallup, experts say agencies should push beyond hourlong webinars and invest in teaching fundamental grant writing skills that could level the playing field for underserved communities. —USA TODAY, 20 Feb. 2024

Here are a few offering higher wages and sign-on bonuses Hong said there should be efforts to level the playing field between large and small companies, as not all businesses are able to offer the same types of benefits to employees. —Journal Sentinel, 2 Feb. 2024

Those clubs who want to allow the market to run riot do not want to level the playing field. —Rory Smith, New York Times, 5 Apr. 2024

Some superintendents believe the Legislature should give a base amount to each district to level the playing field. —Becca Savransky, ProPublica, 22 Mar. 2024

And nationwide efforts to implement pay range transparency mandates and salary history bans are helping to level the playing field by eliminating secrecy and other systemic barriers. —Karla L. Miller, Washington Post, 14 Mar. 2024

The reading passages are much shorter, and an online graphing calculator is built into the application for the math section, which some see as a way to level the playing field for low-income students. —Alessandro Marazzi Sassoon, New York Times, 10 Mar. 2024