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.
Gold standard may also refer to: Gold Standard Act, law enacted by United States Congress to back the United States dollar with physical gold Gold Standard issue, series of postage stamps issued by the Soviet Union between 1923 and 1927 Gold standard (test), the diagnostic test, in the medical field, that is the best available under reasonable conditions Gold Standard (carbon offset standard), widely accepted standard for evaluating the value of carbon offsets Gold Standard Laboratories, 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 The Gold Standard and the Logic of Naturalism, book written by Walter Benn Michaels (1988)