Synonyms for gold standard
gold stan·dard

Princeton's WordNet

1. gold standardnoun

   a monetary standard under which the basic unit of currency is defined by a stated quantity of gold

2. gold standardnoun

   a paragon of excellence

   "academic education is the gold standard against which other educational activity is pejoratively judged"

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1. • Paragon
   • Standard

Concise Medical Dictionary, by Joseph C Segen, MDRate these synonyms:0.0 / 0 votes

1. gold standard

   Synonyms:
   Criterion standard, definitive standard, reference standard

2. gold standard

   Synonyms:
   Criterion standard

Suggested Resources

1. gold standard

   Read the full text of the Gold Standard poem by Kurt Philip Behm on the Poetry.com website.

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1. Serkan Toto:

   When you sell $400 dedicated devices and you sell the gamer boxed software for $60 a piece - for them this is the gold standard, for them, mobile is the junk food: enjoy while you wait for the bus. It's not something that Nintendo sees for itself.

2. Jonathan Cohn:

   The government had been seeking to subject dietary supplements to the same gold standard for testing as prescription drugs, bayer has faithfully followed the law, including the FTC's previous guidance.

3. Bernie Sanders:

   I hear Secretary Clinton is in Ohio tonight talking about how concerned she is about the auto industry -- an industry decimated by the North American Free Trade Agreement and normalized trade with China. She supported those bad deals. I opposed them, now she says she wants to make it tougher for automobiles to be imported to this country under the disastrous Trans-Pacific Partnership. That's the deal she called the 'gold standard' when she was secretary of state.

4. Sarah Bates:

   All National Science Foundation awards pass through our merit review process, considered to be the' gold standard' of scientific review.

5. Mike Osterholm:

   It is now time to start a more traditional The FDA process where we start looking at a test characteristics and define those against what we would consider a gold standard.