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a benchmark vs the benchmark

Both 'a benchmark' and 'the benchmark' are correct, but they are used in different contexts. 'A benchmark' is used when referring to any standard or point of reference, while 'the benchmark' is used when referring to a specific, well-known standard or point of reference.

Last updated: March 24, 2024 • 890 views

a benchmark

This phrase is correct and commonly used in English.

Use 'a benchmark' when referring to any standard or point of reference without specifying a particular one.

Examples:

This new product sets a benchmark for quality in the industry.
The company uses a benchmark to measure its performance against competitors.

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Germany also rejected the Commission's observation that the loan agreement between Postbank and MFAG could not be used as a benchmark.
At the same time, the Commission is invited to study the possibility of extending such a benchmark to include vocational education and training and teacher mobility.
However, we set a benchmark by which we can only move forward.
I feel that this is a benchmark we must not disregard.
It would provide a benchmark for all Member States.
It is a stabilising force and a benchmark for other countries and peoples.
In the long term, this strategy will lead us to sustainable use of natural resources and could constitute a benchmark for other policies.
Projects targeted at social infrastructure should receive an allocation of 35% as a benchmark.
Ships are not homogeneous, so a benchmark is difficult to be established.
The Commission applied symmetry in establishing a benchmark for the injury elimination calculation.
The year 2020 will then be taken as a benchmark.
They would then have a benchmark to help in measuring progress.
Under ETS III, manufacturing of nitric acid will get a benchmark for free emission rights.
Therefore, current broadband penetration rates should not be used as a benchmark.
Therefore it is not appropriate to use today's Chinese LUR prices as a benchmark.
The company submitted its agreements with independent agents as a benchmark.
Building costs are estimated on the basis of a benchmark price module.
It could be stronger by using the International Convention on the elimination of all forms of racial discrimination as a benchmark.
The remainder will be distributed free of charge according to a benchmark, rewarding high-performance airlines.
This status quo has been used as a benchmark for comparing the impact of other possible options.

Alternatives:

a standard
a point of reference
a yardstick
a criterion
a measure

the benchmark

This phrase is correct and commonly used in English.

Use 'the benchmark' when referring to a specific, well-known standard or point of reference.

Examples:

The Dow Jones Industrial Average is considered the benchmark for the stock market.
This study aims to establish the benchmark for future research in the field.

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To replace MPPC with weighted price average (WAP) as the benchmark for proportional minimum requirement.
This should become the benchmark against which other retail offers are compared, thus ensuring fair pricing for consumers.
This will become the benchmark against which other retail offers will be compared, thus ensuring fair pricing for consumers.
For me, European law is always the benchmark.
Your Bohemian Rhapsody was, like, the benchmark performance of every show choir competition in the past ten years.
One might say that it is you who will be setting the benchmark for what twenty-five national parliaments will have to do in 2003.
Although it is certain that effectiveness is the benchmark, the yardstick of democratic legitimacy must also be applied to the decision-making processes in the European Union.
For new companies the benchmark is to be calculated one year after the date on which they started activity.
Structural consolidation efforts will need to exceed significantly the benchmark of 0.5% of GDP per annum set in the Stability and Growth Pact.
This is the convention of October 2007, the benchmark representing the most innovative and up-to-date act on child protection.
In this regard it should be noted that the companies included in the benchmark also use three coats of painting.
Thereafter, the benchmark will remain unchanged at the value reached in April 2015.
However, divestitures are the benchmark for other remedies in terms of effectiveness and efficiency.
Migrants and disadvantaged groups with different cultural backgrounds perform less well in the benchmark areas in most countries.
Additional efforts are needed to reach the benchmark of a 12,5 % participation rate in 2010.
A deviation from the benchmark will be motivated in the Commission's annual report.
James set the benchmark, so he gets zero.
For example, take the benchmark consumer - against whom misleading advertising is assessed.
This adaptation is necessary for the adoption of the benchmark scheme.
Most of these difficulties will be solved by the benchmark scheme.

Alternatives:

the standard
the point of reference
the yardstick
the criterion
the measure

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