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standard of value

NOUN
silver standard


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Not everyone holds human life as their standard of value, and people often argue that things are right or wrong for reasons other than the ways they benefit or harm human beings.

From Forbes • Jan. 29, 2015

This is the exact opposite of holding human life as one’s standard of value.

From Forbes • Jan. 29, 2015

“Its life is the standard of value directing its actions,” Rand wrote, “it acts automatically to further its life and cannot act for its own destruction.”

From Scientific American • Oct. 5, 2012

Floating of the dollar, the currency that has served as the standard of value for all other non-Communist money, would represent the ultimate in flexibility.

From Time Magazine Archive

This seems to me to follow necessarily from the duty already mentioned cast upon congress by the coinage power,—to create and maintain a uniform metallic standard of value throughout the Union.

From Monopolies and the People by Cloud, D. C.




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