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Definition of Double standard
1. Noun. An ethical or moral code that applies more strictly to one group than to another.
Definition of Double standard
1. Noun. The situation of two or more groups, one of whom is tacitly excused from following a standard generally regarded as applying to all groups. ¹
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Lexicographical Neighbors of Double Standard
Literary usage of Double standard
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Principles of Economics by Frank William Taussig (1915)
"The double standard, as has already been said, prevailed over almost all Europe
until very recent times. It was chosen by the United States, in 1792, ..."
2. The Encyclopaedia Britannica: A Dictionary of Arts, Sciences, and General by Thomas Spencer Baynes (1888)
"The more ardent advocates of a double standard, too, attributed most of the
continued trade depression to this cause. The altered condition of ..."
3. A Beginner's History of Philosophy by Herbert Ernest Cushman (1911)
"(2) The standard of the truth of things in the Middle Ages became a double
standard, and was therefore self-destructive. Ostensibly there was only one ..."
4. The Ways and Means of Payment: A Full Analysis of the Credit System, with by Stephen Colwell (1859)
"System of coinage in the united States — double standard — Proposed adoption of
single standard of gold, as a remedy for scarcity of silver — Reduction in ..."
5. Money and Banking by William Amasa Scott (1916)
"... impossibility of establishing a fixed par of exchange between gold- and silver-
standard countries. 3. The compensatory action of the double standard. ..."
6. Principles of Political Economy: with some of their applications to social by John Stuart Mill (1891)
"There was no pretense of setting up a double standard about it ; for it was
evident to the most ignorant that so great a disproportion between the mint and ..."
7. History of American Coinage by David Kemper Watson (1899)
"CHAPTER XXII THE LESSON OF THE CENTURY Effect of the double standard—Decline in
Value of Silver Bullion not an American Question—Relates to the World—Its ..."
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