double standard

double standard

English

Noun

double standard (plural double standards)

1. The situation where two groups or individuals are the same in pertinent ways, but one is condemned for it while the other is excused.
   • 1976, "Missouri Breaker", Playboy

     For example, when discussing relationships, she admitted that she believed in a "reverse double standard".

2. A pair of monetary values, i.e. a gold standard and a silver standard, both of which are legal tender.

Derived terms

• double standardist

Translations

the situation of groups one of which is excused from following a standard

Albanian: please add this translation if you can Arabic: كَيْلٌ بِمِكْيالَيْنِ‎ (kaylun bimikyālayni) Armenian: երկակի ստանդարտ (erkaki standart) Belarusian: падвойны стандарт (padvójny standart), двайны стандарт (dvajny standart) Chinese: Mandarin: 雙重標準／双重标准 (zh) (shuāngchóng biāozhǔn), 雙標／双标 (shuāngbiāo) Czech: dvojí standard m Danish: dobbeltmoral (da) Esperanto: please add this translation if you can Estonian: please add this translation if you can Finnish: kaksinaismoraali (fi) French: deux poids, deux mesures (fr), deux poids et deux mesures (fr) Georgian: ორმაგი სტანდარტი (ormagi sṭandarṭi) German: Doppelmoral (de) f (literally “double moral”); Messen mit zweierlei Maß n (literally “measuring with two kinds of measures”), zweierlei Maß n Hungarian: kettős mérce (hu) Irish: caighdeán dúbailte m Italian: due pesi e due misure, due pesi, due misure, doppiopesismo (it) m Japanese: ダブルスタンダード (ja) (daburu sutandādo), ダブスタ (ja) (dabusuta) (abbreviation), 二重基準 (ja) (nijū kijun) Khmer: ស្តង់ដារទ្វេ (stɑngdaa tvei) Korean: 이중 잣대 (ijung jatdae) Lao: ມາດຕະຖານສອງເທົ່າ (māt ta thān sǭng thao) Latvian: please add this translation if you can Lithuanian: please add this translation if you can Malay: dua darjat (ms) Malayalam: ഇരട്ടത്താപ്പ് (ml) (iraṭṭattāppŭ) Norwegian: dobbeltmoral m, hykleri n Polish: podwójny standard (pl) m Portuguese: dois pesos, duas medidas Romanian: please add this translation if you can Russian: двойно́й станда́рт (ru) m (dvojnój standárt) Slovak: please add this translation if you can Spanish: doble estándar m, ley del embudo, doble rasero (es) m, doble vara de medir, doble moral f Swedish: dubbelmoral (sv) c, dubbelstandard c Thai: สองมาตรฐาน (th) (sɔ̌ɔng-mâat-dtrà-tǎan) Turkish: çifte standart Ukrainian: please add this translation if you can Vietnamese: tiêu chuẩn kép

See also

• special pleading