DOUBLE STANDARD


Meaning of DOUBLE STANDARD in English

( double standards)

If you accuse a person or institution of applying double standards in their treatment of different groups of people, you mean that they unfairly allow more freedom of behaviour to one group than to another.

Mrs Starky accused the local police of operating double standards...

N-COUNT [ disapproval ]

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