YARDSTICK


Meaning of YARDSTICK in English

noun

COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS

■ VERB

use

Always use the appropriate yardstick for each category.

But root bearding was minimal-and this is what most growers would use as a yardstick .

EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES

Many teachers say the primary school tests are not a useful educational yardstick .

The hospital has developed a treatment for cancer which has become the yardstick for all other treatments.

EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS

I have only one yardstick for a good, loving relationship: does it allow both people to grow and flourish?

If this yardstick was right then, it is right now.

It is also most helpful in providing a yardstick for proper administration against which the resolution of problems can be measured.

No yardstick for the mediocre companies to strive to.

Sampling the standards Standards proposed for California students are lengthy and detailed, containing dozens of yardsticks for each grade.

Surely the role of idealism is as a motivating aspiration and a yardstick .

The criteria in quality assurance are the yardsticks, the predetermined elements against which service or the dietetic objectives can be compared.

Longman DOCE5 Extras English vocabulary.      Дополнительный английский словарь Longman DOCE5.