yardstick(STANDARD)
Patients can now be compulsorily detained in hospital only under tightly drawn criteria.现在只有在严格规定的标准下，患者才能被强制留在医院。
The Health Service should not be judged by financial criteria alone.公共医疗卫生服务不应仅仅以财务状况的好坏为标准来评判。
We're looking for a very specific sort of person and this woman seems to fulfil all of our criteria.我们正在寻找某种特定的人，而这个女人似乎符合我们的所有标准。
More specific and less subjective criteria should be used in selecting people for promotion within the company.公司内部决定升职人选时，需要借助更具体、更客观的标准。

SMART Vocabulary: related words and phrases

Quality and standard
acid test
bar
benchmark
build
build quality
cachet
class
gilt-edged
ideal
level
litmus test
multi-levelled
multilevel
random sampling
rate
set the bar high/lowidiom
starred
status
sub-level
take first/second placeidiom

criterion | American Dictionary

criterion
noun[ C ]
us/krɑɪˈtɪər·i·ən/pluralcriteriaus/krɑɪˈtɪər·i·ə/(not standardcriteria, us/krɑɪˈtɪr·i·ə/)
a condition or fact used as a standard by which something can be judged or considered:
Eight criteria will be used to select new stadium sites.
not standard Is height a criteria for hiring police officers?

Note:

The use of criteria as a singular noun is common, esp. in speech.

criterion | Business English

criterion
noun[ C ]
uk /kraɪˈtɪəriən/uspluralcriteria
a standard by which you judge, decide about, or deal with something:
Pay is a very important criterion for job satisfaction.
When employing new staff, you need to be very clear about your selection criteria.
As rates go up we will naturally tighten our lending criteria.

Examples of criterion

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They were permitted one repetition of each of the training phases if this 75% criterion was not initially met.
The further away any two criteria are from each other in the linguistic hierarchy, the more liberal the system is in permitting such inconsistencies.
Therefore, with this easier criterion, the sequence from visual perspective taking to pronoun acquisition was reversed, contradicting our first two hypotheses.
Inclusion criteria were applied independently by two reviewers, and in case of disagreement, a consensus was reached.
We can then infer that the removed variable functions as a significant mediator between the predictor and criterion variables.
What should be stressed is the importance of meritarian criteria in our general thinking about justice.
Only symptoms with significant impact on daily activities contributed as diagnostic criteria.
Moreover, we recognise that we have tended to fasten on some subset of the evidence based on restrictively 'modern' criteria.
Coders were trained to reliability using selected video recorded free-play episodes that had been previously coded by criterion coders.
Figure 2 shows the excitation trajectories optimized under constraints according to the criterion based on the determinant of the covariance matrix.
The conceptual definitions and targeting criteria proposed by this working group should then be tested in large-scale prospective studies to evaluate their predictive value.
This subdivision, however, is not relevant as far as the rough characterization of post-productivist criteria is concerned.
This limit for the vertical lengthscale is used because all the reported experiments satisfy this criterion.
In other words, they are similar across a number of critical linguistic criteria: verbal complementation, do support, syllabic structure, and phonemic contrast (p. 233).
Selection of viable mouse blastocysts prior to transsfer using a metabolic criterion.
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