The phrase "equivalent to making" is correct and usable in written English.
It is often used to indicate that one thing is essentially the same as doing another. For example, "Learning a skill was equivalent to making an investment in my future."
"On the whole, it is equivalent to making credit easier," he said.
But he too quickly implies that understanding these despicable actions is equivalent to making them understandable, that is, to making excuses for them.
"There was a time when, according to local belief, if you visited the mosque in Demak seven times that was equivalent to making the long trip to Mecca".
To use funds generated by Iraqi oil for relief after an American-led war, the Russians and Syrians say, is equivalent to making Iraqis pay for their own aid.
Ms. Pao suggests in her suit that a senior partner's gift of "Longing" was equivalent to making a crude proposal or touching in an inappropriate place — way beyond the pale for acceptable office behavior.
Like them, Sudbin makes no apology for using the full tonal resources that a modern Steinway can offer in works composed for the harpsichord; playing the sonatas on a piano, he says, is effectively equivalent to making piano transcriptions of the originals, and the range of keyboard colour and pedal effects he conjures up for his selection is consistently dazzling.
Its horticultural training manager, Jess Clynewood, prices the farm's products lower than Tesco's organic equivalent to make them accessible not just to the wealthy.
Yes, but it's also going to be strange to have that in a Faulkner adaptation and be an equivalent to make it feel as unusual as the novel.
Considered as a command to make Hook's conditional true, this is equivalent to "Make it the case that either the patient is not alive in the morning, or you change the dressing".
It is roughly like adding together apples and oranges, and turning oranges into "apple equivalents" to make addition feasible and allow us to apply the weights which we decided were appropriate for each factor.
A 2009 study from the Center for an Urban Future found that someone making $60,000 and living in Manhattan is equivalent to someone making $26,092, according to the New York Daily News.
