gold standard

See also: Goldstandard

English

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Noun

gold standard (plural gold standards)

1. (economics) A monetary system where the value of circulating money is linked to the value of gold.
   • 2002, Philip Ball, The Elements: A Very Short Introduction, Oxford, published 2004, page 57:

     In countries that accepted the gold standard, currency could be exchanged at a bank for a fixed weight of gold.

2. (figurative) A test or measure of comparison that is considered ultimate or ideal.

   The OED is the gold standard for English dictionaries.

   • 2016 October 3, Tad Friend, “Sam Altman’s Manifest Destiny”, in The New Yorker‎^[1]:

     YC’s gold standard for revenue growth is ten per cent a week, which compounds to 142x a year.

Translations

monetary system where the value of circulating money is linked to the value of gold

• Basque: urre-patroi
• Belarusian: залаты́ станда́рт m (zalatý standárt)
• Catalan: patró or m
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 金本位 (zh) (jīnběnwèi)

• Danish: guldstandard, guldfod
• Dutch: gouden standaard
• Finnish: kultakanta (fi)
• French: étalon-or (fr) m
• German: Goldstandard (de) m
• Hungarian: aranystandard, aranyalap (hu)
• Icelandic: gullfótur m
• Korean: 금본위제(金本位制) (ko) (geumbonwije)
• Malay: piawai emas
• Norwegian: gullstandard m
• Portuguese: padrão-ouro m, estalão-ouro m
• Romanian: etalon de aur (ro) n
• Russian: золото́й станда́рт m (zolotój standárt)
• Spanish: patrón oro m
• Swedish: guldmyntfot c
• Tagalog: gintong pamantayan
• Vietnamese: bản vị vàng, kim bản vị (vi)

test or measure of comparison that is considered ultimate or ideal

• Finnish: mittatikku (fi)
• French: référence (fr) f
• Polish: złoty standard m

Further reading

• gold standard on Wikipedia.Wikipedia