A gold standard is a monetary standard under which the basic unit of currency is equal in value to and exchangeable for a specified amount of gold.

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Gold standard may also refer to:

• Gold Standard issue, a definitive series of postage stamps issued by the Soviet Union between 1923 and 1927
• Gold standard (test), a diagnostic test that is the best available under reasonable conditions
• Gold Standard (carbon offset standard), a widely accepted standard for evaluating the value of carbon offsets
• Gold Standard Laboratories, a record label
• "Gold Standard", nickname of professional wrestler Shelton Benjamin
• The Gold Standard, the title of an episode of the television show NCIS: Los Angeles
• Gold Standard Corpora (GSC), text corpora used for Natural language processing that have been annotated manually.

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