D defs.my
Entry 1 sense Webster, 1913

double standard

/dŭb'-əl stăn'-dẽrd/ · dou·ble stan·dard · IPA
01 n. a standard or set of principles governing conduct, which is applied more stringently or differently to one group of people than to another;…
  1. 1.
    a standard or set of principles governing conduct, which is applied more stringently or differently to one group of people than to another; -- used especially of standards of sexual behavior that condemn behavior on the part of women that is condoned or not condemned when exhibited by men.