Basic course cadets in their first and second years serve in roles equivalent to those filled by junior enlisted soldiers.

Fourth year cadets serve in roles equivalent to those held by senior company grade and field grade officers.

Although there was no official "Minister of Finances" in this period, certain individuals exerted an equivalent administrative role.

(The braked component may not be a shaft, but something that plays an equivalent role.)

In your opinion, is the prefect fit to take on a role equivalent to combat in battle?

Puerto Rico does not have a post for lieutenant governor but the Secretary of State performs an equivalent role.

Exploding buildings now perform an equivalent symbolic role.

In Scotland, the equivalent role is advocate's clerk.

The assignee has a similar, if not equivalent, fiduciary role as the bankruptcy trustee.

A broadly equivalent role was eventually resumed by the Primate of All Canada.