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stan·dards

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  1. standardsadverb

    (plural form only): Pertaining to standards, concerned with standards, specific to standards.

    There is some sign of disparate standards bodies becoming more closely aligned.

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  1. Standards

    Standards is the fourth album by the American post-rock band Tortoise.

Editors Contribution

  1. standardsnoun

    Plural noun of the word standard.

    The company has specific standards that all their products have to meet.


    Submitted by MaryC on March 15, 2016  

British National Corpus

  1. Spoken Corpus Frequency

    Rank popularity for the word 'standards' in Spoken Corpus Frequency: #1029

  2. Written Corpus Frequency

    Rank popularity for the word 'standards' in Written Corpus Frequency: #1828

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Numerology

  1. Chaldean Numerology

    The numerical value of standards in Chaldean Numerology is: 9

  2. Pythagorean Numerology

    The numerical value of standards in Pythagorean Numerology is: 1

Examples of standards in a Sentence

  1. Vale CEO Fabio Schvartsman:

    We are 100 percent within all the standards, and that didn't do it.

  2. George Santayana:

    Half our standards come from our first masters, and the other half from our first loves.

  3. One CEO:

    After joining Higher One in 2014, I charged our team to set new standards for transparency and compliance. Today, the account experience is significantly changed and an even better student experience will be unveiled in 2016.

  4. Zhao Lijian:

    The United States has overtly pursued double standards.

  5. David Marchese:

    Without a continually rising G.D.P., we’re told, we risk social instability, declining standards of living and pretty much any hope of progress, but what about the counterintuitive possibility that our current pursuit of growth, rabid as it is and causing such great ecological harm, might be incurring more costs than gains?

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