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unstandard en · ADJ

Etymology

From un- + standard.

Meanings

1. Not standard; not at standard, or at a level other than that which is considered standard
   • So I replayed my '46 scenario and asked another unstandard academic, a charismatic, disenchanted philosophy professor named George Geiger, who had been Lou Gehrig's backup on the Columbia baseball team and John Dewey's last graduate student, what I should do. 2012, Clifford Geertz, Available Light: Anthropological Reflections on Philosophical Topics:
   • Similarly, to take twenty-five years of free-form, cross-cutting social, political, economic, and historical writing growing out of work at a single, unstandard, American institution and isolate it as an "era" in such writing — a stage, a phase, a line of thought — is to pursue an agenda, take a position, state a case. 2001, Joan Wallach Scott, Debra Keates, Schools of Thought: Twenty-five Years of Interpretive Social Science:
   • In particular reference to our own topic, the Drugs Act and Rules can prevent a pharmacist from selling drugs which are not of standard quality but cannot prevent him from selling his commodities at a cheaper rate than that of his fellow pharmacists in his area or from indulging in a cut throat competition, which practice is as undesirable as that of selling unstandard drugs. 2008, Dr. M. D. Burande, Drug Store And Business Management:

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Relateds

substandard · nonstandard