yardstick
noun /ˈjɑːdstɪk/
/ˈjɑːrdstɪk/
- (especially North American English) a ruler for measuring one yard
- a standard used for judging how good or successful something is
- a yardstick by which to measure something
- Exam results are not the only yardstick of a school's performance.
Extra Examples- The new test provides a yardstick against which to measure children's learning.
- We don't have a common yardstick by which to compare the two cases.
- a yardstick for measuring growth
- the yardstick of success
- Freud remains the yardstick from which other psychoanalysts choose to deviate.
- Rates of progress are difficult to compare without a common yardstick.
- The rate of return on capital is used as the yardstick of profitability.
Oxford Collocations Dictionaryadjective- good
- reliable
- useful
- …
- have
- apply
- use (something as)
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- against a yardstick
- by a yardstick
- yardstick for
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