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      [Noun]  | "gold standard" 


      1: a monetary standard under which the basic unit of currency is defined by a stated quantity of gold and which is usually characterized by the coinage and circulation of gold, unrestricted convertibility of other money into gold, and the free export and import of gold for settling of international obligations

      2: benchmark


      Origin: 1811 ;

      [Noun]  | "the gold standard" 


      1: a system in which a unit of money (such as the dollar) is equal to a particular amount of gold

      2: something that is considered to be the best and that is used to judge the quality or level of other, similar things

      [Noun]  | "gold standard" 


      1: something set up as an example against which others of the same type are compared;


        * e.g., " ... the gold standard for accurate experimental procedures is the double-blind medication trial "



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       [ "gold standard" ]

      1: The gold standard is a monetary system in which a region's common media of exchange are paper notes that are normally freely convertible into pre-set, fixed quantities of gold. Currently there are no governments that use the gold standard however, the United States used to use the gold standard before the Federal Reserve System who is a cartel took over secretly on a island off of the state of Georgia. Ever since the gold standard was taken over in 1913 by the FED, the value of money went down and the cost of living went up. The paper money we use today is called fiat.

        * e.g.,  ... The United States can only get out of it's 10 trillion dollar debt by getting rid of the Federal Reserve System and going back to the gold standard where ther is no inflation. 

       [ "gold standard" ]

      1: a girl (or guy) whom a number of people in the same peer group have slept with; a girl whom guys can use as a baseline for comparing experiences.

        * e.g.,  ... Kev, Zaz and C Mac had all been with Kerry in the past so it gave them a gold standard for when Zaz told them that he'd hooked up with a chick who gave worse head than Kerry. 

       [ "gold standard" ]

      1: The world's worst monetary instrument, that Ron Paul and his supporters want us to return to, for reasons unknown.

        * e.g.,  ... The gold standard caused a huge collapse in the money supply, restricted monetary policy, caused enormous deflation, and exacerbated the problems of the Great Depression. 

       [ "Is that's the gold standard we go by now a days?" ]

      1: Is that the gold standard we go by now a days?- is a phrase that is used when someone descripts a certain standard of a people in a conversation. This usually is a duh factor answer.

        * e.g.,  ... Person 1- The girl I'm dating now wants me to call her mommy when I see her. Person 2- Is that's the gold standard we go by now a days? 

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