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Dictionary.com Unabridged (v 1.1) - Cite This Source - Share This
double standard
–noun
1.any code or set of principles containing different provisions for one group of people than for another, esp. an unwritten code of sexual behavior permitting men more freedom than women. Compare single standard (def. 1).
2.Economics. bimetallism.

[Origin: 1950–55]
American Heritage Dictionary - Cite This Source - Share This
double standard  
n.   A set of principles permitting greater opportunity or liberty to one than to another, especially the granting of greater sexual freedom to men than to women.

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double standard

noun
an ethical or moral code that applies more strictly to one group than to another 

American Heritage Dictionary of Idioms - Cite This Source - Share This

double standard

A set of principles establishing different provisions for one group than another; also, specifically, allowing men more sexual freedom than women. For example, She complained that her father had a double standardher brothers were allowed to date, but she was not, even though she was older. [Mid-1900s]


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