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• EQUITABLE SUBORDINATION
  
  A legal term used in bankruptcy to describe a process in which a bankruptcy judge decides that fairness can only be achieved by giving lower priority (subordinating) the claims of one or more creditors (usually a secured bank) to the claims of other (usually unsecured) creditors.
  
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