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Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
standpoint
noun
COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES
view sth from a ... perspective/standpoint
▪ It’s an issue that can be viewed from several perspectives.
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ ADJECTIVE
economic
▪ Yet it does produce a soft and, most important from an economic standpoint, fast product.
▪ I was looking at it more from an economic standpoint.
political
▪ Different organizations operated from different political standpoints, from within different boundaries and on different time-scales.
▪ Rejoice in your abilities to transform, with the stun-baton of humor, a weak political standpoint into an Obvious Universal Truth.
▪ We have countless learned articles and books on a multitude of movements and tendencies written from different political and aesthetic standpoints.
▪ It is not in any case possible to pin a particular explanatory model to a specific political strategy or standpoint.
practical
▪ From a practical standpoint, however, this distinction makes little difference.
▪ From a practical standpoint, Saberhagen will be better served staying with the team.
▪ However, it does little from a practical standpoint because it has no inspection capability.
theoretical
▪ This chapter examines these questions from a theoretical standpoint within the framework of natural monopoly industries.
▪ First, that the routinized nature of practice affects all theoretical standpoints, therefore psychodynamic social work is not necessarily disadvantaged.
■ VERB
view
▪ The problem attains proportion when viewed from the standpoint of the witness who appears before a congressional committee.
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
▪ From an economic standpoint, the war was a good idea.
▪ From the teacher's standpoint, the new tests just mean more work.
▪ His books have sold in the millions, but from a literary standpoint they aren't really very good.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
▪ From a historical standpoint, no one can question the Huskers' right to be called a great team.
▪ From whatever standpoint or philosophy, works of art can never be judged as essential to basic living.
▪ I also think it's important to stick to a recorded solo from the standpoint of a fan.
▪ More striking from a legal standpoint is the way in which the judge was prosecuted.
▪ Rejoice in your abilities to transform, with the stun-baton of humor, a weak political standpoint into an Obvious Universal Truth.
▪ The problem attains proportion when viewed from the standpoint of the witness who appears before a congressional committee.
▪ This chapter examines these questions from a theoretical standpoint within the framework of natural monopoly industries.
▪ We must approach the problem from a different standpoint.
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Standpoint

Standpoint \Stand"point`\ (-point`), n. [Cf. G. standpunkt.] A fixed point or station; a basis or fundamental principle; a position from which objects or principles are viewed, and according to which they are compared and judged.

Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
standpoint

1829, from stand (v.) + point (n.). A loan-translation of German Standpunkt. Century Dictionary calls it "a word objected to by purists."

Wiktionary
standpoint

n. point of view; perspective

WordNet
standpoint

n. a mental position from which things are viewed; "we should consider this problem from the viewpoint of the Russians"; "teaching history gave him a special point of view toward current events" [syn: point of view, viewpoint, stand]

Wikipedia
Standpoint

Standpoint may refer to:

Theories
  • Standpoint theory, a postmodern method for analyzing inter-subjective discourses
  • Standpoint feminism, an ideology that argues feminist social science should be practiced from the standpoint of women
  • Perspective (cognitive), a point of view
Media
  • Standpoint (magazine), a monthly British cultural and political magazine
  • The BVI Standpoint, a newspaper published in the British Virgin Islands
Standpoint (magazine)

Standpoint is a monthly British cultural and political magazine. Its premier issue was published in May 2008 – the first launch of a major current affairs publication in the UK in more than a decade. Standpoint is based in London and was co-founded by Daniel Johnson, Miriam Gross, Jonathan Foreman and Michael Mosbacher; Johnson is its editor.

The magazine describes its core mission as being "to celebrate western civilisation", its arts and its values – in particular democracy, debate and freedom of speech – at a time when they are under threat. The magazine is broadly centre-right in orientation, but aims to include a " broad church" and to capitalize on the realignment of political attitudes in the wake of the September 11, 2001 attacks. The magazine has sought to revive the art of the essay in Britain, calling itself a response to "a market swamped by the journalistic equivalent of fast food".

Usage examples of "standpoint".

During the meeting, I briefly addressed my colleagues, offering my views from a medical standpoint on the anthrax exposure so far.

The difference between Kant and Herbart in interpreting the process of apperception is an index of a radical difference in their pedagogical standpoints.

From a public health standpoint, then, measles is a disease of prime importance.

To be fearlessly outspoken in her opinions came easily to her, since she judged solely from the standpoint of her social position.

Self-change in nature is change in the quality of the standpoint of the percipient event.

Powell, yet relates especially to the method of reckoning from the constantly recognized but ever varying standpoint of prescriptorial culture.

From the standpoint of thermoregulation, the division of the brain into a cerebellum and a cerebrum with temporal, parietal, and frontal lobes is meaningless.

Her emancipation from dogma had been so gradual, so unconfused by external pressure, that from her present standpoint she could look back with calmness and justice on all the stages she had left behind.

From a scientific standpoint, that lent probability to her unformulated feeling being grounded in facts.

I found something very stimulating in the reflection that, rash though the expedition might be, and, viewed from whatever standpoint, undeniably perilous, it promised to bring me to that secret stronghold of deviltry where the sinister Hassan of Aleppo so successfully had concealed himself.

From a purely behavioristic standpoint, if the phobic reaction is gone, then the phobia is cured.

And from this standpoint Neo-Confucianism, in keeping with all other Confucian schools, was primarily concerned with the conduct and affairs of people in the here and now.

But the truthful historian of the capabilities of crabs, the duty of one who stands sponsor to some of the species and who has the hardihood to indite some of the manifestations of their intelligence, wit, and craft, must discard the prejudices of his race, abandon all flattering sense of superiority, forbear the smiles of patronage, and contemplate them from the standpoint of fellowship and sympathy.

I explained to you the principles condemnatory of craniotomy and abortion, viewing these chiefly from the standpoint of the ethical philosopher and the jurist.

The Eleatics had put forward a claim, and Hegel called a standpoint like that a thesis.