English
Noun
double standard (plural double standards)
- 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[1]
- For example, when discussing relationships, she admitted that she believed in a "reverse double standard".
- A pair of monetary values, i.e. a gold standard and a silver standard, both of which are legal tender.
Derived terms
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: please add this translation if you can
- Chinese:
- Mandarin: 雙重標準／双重标准 (zh) (shuāngchóng biāozhǔn), 双重标准 (zh) (shuāngchóng biāozhǔn), 雙標／双标 (shuāngbiāo), 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
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- Japanese: ダブルスタンダード (ja) (daburusutandādo)
- 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
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