measuring stick

collocation in English

meaningsofmeasureandstick

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measure
noun
uk
/ˈmeʒ.ər/us
/ˈmeʒ.ɚ/
a way of achieving something, or a method for dealing with ...
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stick
noun
uk
/stɪk/us
/stɪk/
a thin piece of wood or ...
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(Definition ofmeasureandstickfrom theCambridge English Dictionary© Cambridge University Press)

Examplesofmeasuring stick

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It should be clear that determining this requires some sort ofmeasuringstick.
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Short of a quantitativemeasuringstickthat would be difficult to define, we qualitatively analyzed the two approaches in light of each of the 10 criteria.
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Is that not a bettermeasuringstickof people's needs for supplementary pensions?
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In other words, themeasuringstickof private enterprise is profit, and not service for the people.
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The economics of the argument have not been made out by anymeasuringstick.
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There is anothermeasuringstickof people's needs.
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That we are doing, and have been doing, but that is merely a normal precautionary measure so that we have themeasuringstick.
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When questioned, he quickly backpedalled and said that he meant to say that it would be ameasuringstickand an experiment.
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Whatever you use for yourmeasuringstick, in a changing world, is itself a changing thing.
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I do not take outside pay as themeasuringstick.
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It is the only safemeasuringstickwhich we can use.
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The standardisation is the standardisation of themeasuringstickagainst which freely chosen local levels of service will be measured.
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We appreciate that market value undoubtedly represents a recognisable and comprehensiblemeasuringstick for compensation, and therefore it has merit, but in itself and alone it is not adequate.
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It is a good solid, stiffmeasuringstick, but by using it as such you are not returning to the gold standard in any sense at all.
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I would rather use as ameasuringstickof people's need the fact that old men and women are underfed and cold through lack of coal.
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They find that four distinct but related processes metaphorically structure basic arithmetic: object collection, object construction, using ameasuringstick, and moving along a path.
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Ameasuringsticktraveling with the particle appears shorter to the earth observer.
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This thinmeasuringstickis gently placed into the space between the gums and the teeth, and slipped below the gumline.
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Physical objects are often measured by simply holding ameasuringsticknext to them, but measuring time is more complicated.
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