yardstick in the PONS Dictionary

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yardstick of profitability FIN
критерий за икономическа изгода [o. рентабилност]

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Typical applications of yardsticks are for building furniture, vehicles and houses.
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These collective yardsticks are determined by the norms previously discussed.
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Whatever the cause of death is, it is not, by any yardstick, a natural one.
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Some intuitive or obvious measurement is generally exempted, such as selling cloth on a cutting table that has a yardstick fastened to it.
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We thus have no yardstick to measure our difference and define ourselves.
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This often meant that students were commonly chastised with the birch, cane, paddle, strap or yardstick if they did something wrong.
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It is a yardstick that stood him in good stead.
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For example, not everything is measurable and yet so much of what we do has that yardstick applied to it.
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Reporting on the state of the environment requires that information on separate indicators are integrated into comprehensive yardsticks or indices.
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Students should be tested against a fixed yardstick, rather than against each other or sorted into a mathematical bell curve.
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