BENCHMARKING

Specialty Definition: BENCHMARKING

Domain	Definition
Federal Student Aid	A way to improve our performance by comparing our work against companies that are among the very best at what they do (see "best in business"). A benchmark is a standard against which we can measure our performance. For example, when measuring customer service, we might compare our performance to Nordstrom, Southwest Airlines or USAA. (references)
Health	Method of measuring performance against established standards of best practice. (references)
Social Sciences	The establishment of a criterion, standard or reference point against which to establish targets and measure progress. Source: European Union. (references)
Statistics	The process of re-estimating statistics as more complete data become available. Estimates are usually calculated using only a sample of the universe(total count). Source: European Union. (references)
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Commercial Usage: BENCHMARKING

Domain	Title
Books	Benchmarking Basics: Looking for a Better Way (50-Minute Series) (reference) Business Process Benchmarking (reference) The Basics of Benchmarking (reference) The Benchmarking Book, 2nd Edition (reference) The Science of Computer Benchmarking (Software, Environments, Tools) (reference) (more book examples)
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Non-Fiction Usage: BENCHMARKING

Subject	Topic	Quote
Business		This philosophy has lead to a greater emphasis on financial fundamentals and benchmarking. (references)
		To allow benchmarking against other firms in the industry, a common index of Net Sales or Revenues = 100 is used. (references)
Economic History	Sri Lanka	By March 2001 benchmarking on global best practices in the cluster areas was partially completed, and work on cluster strategies had commenced. (references)
Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits.

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Usage Frequency: BENCHMARKING

"BENCHMARKING" is generally used as a lexical verb (-ing form) -- approximately 55.88% of the time. "BENCHMARKING" is used about 34 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted)

Parts of Speech	Percent	Usage per 100 Million Words	Rank in English
Lexical Verb (-ing form)	55.88%	19	80,337
Noun (singular)	17.65%	6	143,867
Adjective (general or positive)	17.65%	6	143,867
Noun (proper)	8.82%	3	202,518
Total	100.00%	34	N/A

Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.

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Frequency of Internet Keywords: BENCHMARKING

The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com.

Expression	Frequency per Day	Expression	Frequency per Day
benchmarking	722	process benchmarking	6
total quality management benchmarking	49	cpu benchmarking	6
benchmarking software	31	3d benchmarking	6
benchmarking tool	26	benchmarking training	6
benchmarking telecommunication	16	benchmarking financial	6
business benchmarking	13	maintenance benchmarking	6
call center benchmarking	13	benchmarking hospital	6
benchmarking study	12	benchmarking educational	6
benchmarking and best practice	12	benchmarking network	6
benchmarking definition	12	benchmarking book	5
benchmarking computer	11	benchmarking utility	5
benchmarking system	9	benchmarking en venezuela	5
health care benchmarking	9	hr benchmarking	5
benchmarking pc	9	benchmarking report	5
benchmarking es que	9	banking benchmarking in	5
benchmarking data	8	benchmarking program	5
benchmarking it	7	customer service benchmarking	5
benchmarking account payable	7	benchmarking drive hard	4
benchmarking position	7	benchmarking salary	4
benchmarking el es que	6	benchmarking price	4
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Modern Translation: BENCHMARKING

Language		Translations for "BENCHMARKING"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses.
Dutch		ijken van methoden voor risicoanalyse (benchmarking of risk assessment methods). (various references)

French		référençage des méthodes d'évaluation des risques (benchmarking of risk assessment methods), Groupe � haut niveau pour l'étalonnage des performances (High level group on benchmarking). (various references)

German		hochrangige Benchmarking-Gruppe (High level group on benchmarking). (various references)

Greek		βαθμολόγηση επιδόσεων. (various references)

Italian		grupo di alto livello sulle tecniche di benchmarking (High level group on benchmarking). (various references)

Pig Latin		enchmarkingbay

Russian		эталонное тестирование. (various references)

Spanish		evaluación comparativa (benchmark). (various references)
Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

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Derivations: BENCHMARKING

Derivations
	Words beginning with "BENCHMARKING": benchmarkings. (additional references)
Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references).

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Anagrams: BENCHMARKING

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams
	Words within the letters "a-b-c-e-g-h-i-k-m-n-n-r"
	-2 letters: becharming, chambering.
	-3 letters: benchmark, branching, breaching, cambering, cankering, embanking, embarking, embracing, hankering, harkening, nicknamer.
	-4 letters: amercing, beaching, benaming, benching, beraking, breaking, breaming, chainmen, chairmen, charking, charming, cranking, creaking, creaming, germanic, marching, menacing, nickname, ninebark, ranching, ranchmen, reaching, recaning, remaking, renaming, ringneck.
	-5 letters: aginner, anergic, archine, arching, arcking, baching, backing, banking, barking, beaming, beaning, bearing.
	Words containing the letters "a-b-c-e-g-h-i-k-m-n-n-r"
	+1 letter: benchmarkings.
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