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Standards of living

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standard /'stændǝd / n ၁။ (often pl ) အဆင့္အတန္း။ a school which sets high standards of behaviour ❍ We provide a first-class standard of service. ❍ maintain/raise/improve safety standards. ၂။ [C, U] အဆင့္။ အဆင့္အတန္း။ His work does not reach the required standard. ❍ I'm afraid your work is not up to standard. ❍ Local beaches fall short of/do not meet European standards of cleanliness. ၃။ [pl] စံခ်ိန္။ စံ။ အဆင့္။ a lowering of moral standards ❍ People's standards are not what they used to be. See also DOUBLE STANDARDS ၄။ စံႏႈန္း။ စံ။ industry standards ❍ an international standard of weight ❍ People were very poor then, by today's standards (ie compared with people today). See also GOLD STANDARD ၅။ ေအာင္လံ။ the royal standard. adj ၁။ ပံုမွန္။ သာမန္။ မွန္တမ္း။ pay the standard rate of tax ❍ a standard-sized jar of coffee ❍ It is standard procedure in museums to register objects as they are acquired. ❍ Anti-lock brakes are standard/come as standard in all models. ၂။ စံျပဳ။ စံႏႈန္း။ standard sizes of paper/units of weight. ၃။ စံျပဳ။ စံျပ။ This is the standard textbook on the subject. See also REVISED STANDARD VERSION ၄။ စံထားၾကေသာ။ စံျပဳ။ standard English. ❏ standard-bearer n ေရွ႕ေဆာင္လမ္းျပ။ a standard-bearer for women's rights. ❏ standard lamp ( US floor lamp ) n မတ္တတ္ မီး စေလာင္း။ ❏ standard of living n ( pl standards of living ) လူေနမႈအဆင့္အတန္း။ They have/enjoy a high standard of living. ❏ standard time n [U] စံေတာ္ခ်ိန္။

Examples

  1. [standard of] : Higher standards of service in hospitals
  2. [raise/improve/lower standards] : What can be done to raise standards in schools?
  3. [meet/achieve/conform to/comply with standards] : They must supply water that complies with medical health standards.
  4. [set (someone) a standard] : He sets himself high standards.
  5. Laurence Olivier set the standard for (=was the best example of) acting in the 20th century.
  6. [below/not up to standard] : The food was not up to standard.
  7. [of a high/low standard] : She always produces work of a high standard.
  8. The work must conform to industry standards.
  9. [by any standard(s)] : The building was still magnificent by any standards.
  10. [by someone’s/something’s standards] : Getting up at 8 o’clock was early by her standards.
  11. The first computers were terribly slow by today’s standards.
  12. Declining moral standards