pars

Noun

par (countable and uncountable, plural pars)

1. Equal value; equality of nominal and actual value; the value expressed on the face or in the words of a certificate of value, as a bond or other commercial paper.
   • It also means that when a right-wing Jewish group such as the ZOA chooses to overlook Bannon’s well-documented links to anti-Semitic white nationalists, it puts itself on a moral par with J.V.P. Bannon is the man who expressly called Breitbart News “the platform for the alt-right,” knowing...2017 November 16, Bret Stephens, “Steve Bannon Is Bad for the Jews”, in The New York Times, archived from the original on 18 Nov 2017
2. Equality of condition or circumstances.
3. (uncountable) The allotted number of strokes to reach the hole.
   • He needs to make this shot for par.
4. (countable) A hole in which a player achieves par.
   • Kaymer started with six straight pars before making a birdie on the seventh and an eagle on the eighth.2009 January 18, “Paul Casey storms to four-stroke lead in Abu Dhabi”, in Herald Sun
5. (UK) An amount which is taken as an average or mean.

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