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• a standard letter was sent to all candidates.
• televisions are a standard feature in most hotel rooms.
• the standard rate of tax (= paid by everyone)
• it is standard practice to search visitors as they enter the building.

standard

1. average or normal rather than having special or unusual features
• A standard letter was sent to all candidates.
• Televisions are a standard feature in most hotel rooms.
• the standard rate of tax (= paid by everyone)
• It is standard practice to search visitors as they enter the building.
• All vehicles come with a CD player as standard.
• standard issue uniforms (= given to everyone)
2. following a particular standard set, for example, by an industry
• standard sizes of clothes
• Washing machines have standard measurements to fit under kitchen units.
3. read by most people who are studying a particular subject
4. believed to be correct and used by most people
• compare non-standard
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• Standard English

Extra Examples

• Anti-lock brakes come as standard.
• The stations were built to a simple, almost standard design.
• a fairly standard method of assessing employees
• ‘No comment’ is his standard reply to most questions.
• All vehicles come with a catalytic converter as standard.
• Calls will be charged at the standard rate.
• I enclose a copy of our standard contract.
• Imprisonment became the standard method of punishment.
• It is standard practice to search visitors as they enter the building.
• Pizza dough is oilier than standard bread dough.
• The rifle was standard issue for the British army before the First World War.

Word Origin

• Middle English (denoting a flag raised on a pole as a rallying point, the authorized exemplar of a unit of measurement, or an upright timber): shortening of Old French estendart, from estendre ‘extend’; in sense (5), influenced by the verb stand.