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”, in Playboy‎^[1]:

     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 (zh) (shuāngbiāo)

• Czech: dvojí standard m
• Danish: dobbeltmoral (da)
• Dutch: dubbele moraal f, met twee maten meten (nl)
• 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), 二重規範 (ja) (nijū kihan), 二重標準 (ja) (nijū hyōjun)
• 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, doble moral f, ley del embudo, doble rasero (es) m, doble vara de medir
• 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