noun
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ VERB
use
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Always use the appropriate yardstick for each category.
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But root bearding was minimal-and this is what most growers would use as a yardstick .
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
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Many teachers say the primary school tests are not a useful educational yardstick .
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The hospital has developed a treatment for cancer which has become the yardstick for all other treatments.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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I have only one yardstick for a good, loving relationship: does it allow both people to grow and flourish?
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If this yardstick was right then, it is right now.
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It is also most helpful in providing a yardstick for proper administration against which the resolution of problems can be measured.
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No yardstick for the mediocre companies to strive to.
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Sampling the standards Standards proposed for California students are lengthy and detailed, containing dozens of yardsticks for each grade.
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Surely the role of idealism is as a motivating aspiration and a yardstick .
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The criteria in quality assurance are the yardsticks, the predetermined elements against which service or the dietetic objectives can be compared.