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Meaning benchmark meaning

What does benchmark mean?

benchmark

— noun a surveyor's mark on a permanent object of predetermined position and elevation used as a reference point — noun a standard by which something can be measured or judged his painting sets the benchmark of quality

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bench mark criterion standard measure yardstick touchstone reference point reference mark reference level reference point of reference performance benchmark gold standard benchmarking baseline

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benchmark · verb

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Simple sentences

The Federal Reserve cut its benchmark discount rate to an 18-year low.
Without a good benchmark, it's hard to tell which software is faster.

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God gave us celery as the benchmark of nothingness.
A benchmark in the fitness community.
I'd been dating the Russian for two months. when we hit a relationship benchmark so rare. I didn't even know it existed.
There has to be a benchmark, so everyone knows what they're doing.
I guess I'm benchmark for lost time.
Well, I've had resistant patients, but you've set a new benchmark.
Well, I think that road's a benchmark.
That's a good benchmark for you to try and beat.
Financially, it's a benchmark.
That was the benchmark of drumming when I was a kid.
That's the benchmark and that is a fail, isn't it?
So, being our first car on here, I can tell you. you'll just have to trust me on this. this was an amazing time, going to be the benchmark, one of the times to beat, for sure. a 1:22.0.
In an era of crooked men and crooked games, this set the benchmark in fair play.
Call it out, Charlie. What's your benchmark?
I think Purple Rain set a benchmark for pop movies.
You're setting a high benchmark for the rest of the competition.
Well, if the last few weeks is your benchmark for ordinary, then we do have a lot to talk about.
Listen, Carter, no one's ever looked at me as the moral benchmark.
But what this trade will do is serve as a benchmark for future business, Kevin.
If you actually go to a store and you benchmark the price of a garment over the last 20 years, you will find that there's actually a deflation of the product, i.e., the price has gone down over time.
Colonel, the Afghan National Army missed yet another benchmark for preparedness.
The human mind, Bernard, is not some golden benchmark glimmering on some green and distant hill.
Oh, the old malicious browser benchmark trick.
To do that we've got a bit of a performance benchmark. A Ferrari 488.
To make sure that the M2. that wasn't on the lap board all by itself, we got the American to put other benchmark cars. we call them benchmark cars, he calls them communist. around the track, to see what's what.
By imagining that it could be lost, rather than subjected to the absurd, I place at the very center of my relative existence an absolute benchmark - that of ethics.
But before that, we need a benchmark.
That would give us a speed, which will form the benchmark for how well our Swedish and Irish cannons perform.
So, that's the benchmark.
So, in the context of the parrot rifle performance benchmark, the lightweight hybrid cannon matched up, which just Ives the Irish question.
Remember, the benchmark we're using is the parrot rifles muzzle velocity of 389 miles per hour, plus, it has to be capable of multiple, successful firing.
I can tell you. you'll just have to trust me on this. this was an amazing time, going to be the benchmark, one of the times to beat, for sure. a 1:22.0.
James set the benchmark, so he gets zero.
And as the only benchmark was making big profits.
The playoffs the benchmark of a good year for any team.
Your Bohemian Rhapsody was, like, the benchmark performance of every show choir competition in the past ten years.
Is that the benchmark for a happy marriage these days, a few good years?

News and current affairs

Despite all that had gone before, the public and their representatives were stunned to learn that bankers had systematically undermined the foundations of a global market benchmark - one with London in its name to boot - for personal gain.
On the contrary, economists tend to use these conditions as a benchmark for analyzing market failures.
But instead of rethinking its strategy, the ECB is considering doubling down: buying even more bonds and lowering its benchmark interest rate even further into negative territory.
President Bush's vision of a state of a free and independent Palestine established in 2005 alongside a safe and secure state of Israel could also be used as a benchmark for fresh talks.
Passivity is a low-cost approach - tracking a benchmark requires no work.
By the mid-2000's, Summers argued at a recent International Monetary Fund conference, the average prospective return on new investment in the United States had fallen below any feasible reduction in the Federal Reserve's benchmark interest rate.
For now, however, the high unemployment of the past several years should be mainly attributed to the financial crisis, and should ultimately retreat toward historical benchmark levels.
What a real revolution it would be if the Western democracies did indeed begin to frame their foreign policies with human rights and democratic processes as their benchmark.
The benchmark for this study is admittedly far from ideal.
For European cities, the results are listed in the table below, which uses Germany as the benchmark.
China is a benchmark.
Almost everywhere in the world, the TRC is regarded highly and considered a benchmark against which other efforts to move from dictatorship to democracy must be judged.
Human rights should be the ideological benchmark for Europe's internal politics and foreign policy--otherwise, the creation of the post of EU foreign affairs minister will remain a dead letter.
One particular worry is that euro-zone money supply is well above the ECB's benchmark level, indicating an excess supply of liquidity.
Benchmark policy rates are currently below headline inflation in India, South Korea, Hong Kong, Singapore, Thailand, and Indonesia.
Finally - and perhaps most importantly - the People's Bank of China has raised its benchmark policy rate five times since October 2010.
When Chinese seek a benchmark model for social protection, they go on study trips to Scandinavia.
The Commission recognizes this in its supporting documentation for the Juncker package, in which it argues that the pre-credit-boom years should be used as the benchmark for desirable investment levels today.
With benchmark interest rates stuck at the dreaded zero bound, monetary policy has been transformed from an agent of price stability into an engine of financial instability.
Consider the December meeting of the Federal Open Market Committee (FOMC), where discussions of raising the benchmark federal funds rate were couched in adjectives, rather than explicit actions.
And when it finally began to raise the benchmark rate, it did so excruciatingly slowly.
Policy levers - both benchmark interest rates and central banks' balance sheets - remain at their emergency settings, even though the emergency ended long ago.
With its benchmark lending rate at the zero-bound, the Fed has embraced a fundamentally different approach in attempting to guide the US economy.
It is also time that investors started to benchmark their portfolios more appropriately.
An alternative approach is to use a GDP-weighted benchmark.
For bold and aggressive investors, a benchmark that incorporates future predicted GDP gives a lot more weight to emerging markets, especially to the growth economies.
Even when people feel we have not lived up to the standards expected of a world city, we are glad to be held to a high benchmark, because it keeps us on our toes.
Just as Spain (not Germany) remains the benchmark in European football, so Europe speaks broken English at best.
But if that is the benchmark, we could say that jumping off a cliff is the best way to get down from a mountain; after all, the descent has been stopped.
In both cases, however, perfect insurance could nonetheless serve as a valid benchmark to guide the choice of policies to implement.

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