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yardsticks

yardsticks is the plural of yardstick.

Meaning of yardstick

Noun

yardstick (plural yardsticks)

  1. A measuring rod thirty-six inches (one yard) long.
  2. (figuratively) A standard to which other measurements or comparisons are judged.
    • Attacks against civilians in the capital remained relatively unchanged: 69 in March from 62 in February. ¶ However, another yardstick, the number of civilian deaths tracked by the Iraqi government, shot up last month after several months of decline.2008 April 8, Michael R. Gordon and Eric Schmitt, “Attacks in Baghdad spiked in March, U.S. data show”, in International Herald Tribune, 2008 April 8 edition, “Africa & Middle East” section

Phrases with yardsticks

Questions about yardsticks

What is yardsticks the plural of?
Yardsticks is the plural of yardstick.

Words near yardsticks in the dictionary

  1. yardsman
  2. yardsmen
  3. yardsnap
  4. yardsnaps
  5. yardstick
  6. yardsticks
  7. Yardumian
  8. Yardumians
  9. yardwand
  10. yardwands
  11. yardwork

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Adapted from Wiktionary: yardsticks (page history and authors); yardstick (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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