1. benchmark - Noun
2. benchmark - Verb
a surveyor's mark on a permanent object of predetermined position and elevation used as a reference point
a standard by which something can be measured or judged
Source: WordNetReliance will get listed on wall street because we want to benchmark ourselves with the top 100 companies of the world. Mukesh Ambani
There is no revolution like the Communist revolution. You simply burn all the books, kill all of the thinking people and use the poor proletariat to create a very simple benchmark to gauge social change. Ai Weiwei
Every show on television has a downward trend because there are so many more things to watch. You can only deal with what is the benchmark of a hit series and 'Survivor' clearly remains a hit series. Mark Burnett
Man's relation to pain changes with every significant shift in fundamental belief. This relation is in no way set; rather, it eludes our knowledge, and yet is the best benchmark by which to discern a race. Ernst Jünger
My parents' generation's benchmark was simple: Fat Equals Bad. Arabella Weir
My biggest mentor has been the Benchmark partnership. We have six partners and a flat structure, and everyone is paid the exact same paycheck. It's a team model versus an individual model. Peter Fenton