The word "comparator" is correct and usable in written English.
You can use it to refer to someone or something that compares two or more persons or things to draw conclusions or assess similarities or differences. For example, "The teacher will be our comparator when grading the students' essays."
In fact, its fluctuations are small compared with the obvious comparator, Brazil: (The BIS numbers only go up through July, and I estimated the last month from the dollar-rupee rate).
Competition would still exist as the winning tender would be compared with an in-house comparator in March 2014.
He earned £5.5m in total, including a £1.1m bonus, and Pirc said: "The chief executive's salary is considered to be above the upper quartile of its comparator group.
In summary – EMEA was solid, the US weak, but gently improving on restructuring, and Global Products was down heavily on a strong comparator.
The fertility bust Reprints Related items Russia's new DumaDec 23rd 1999Mussolini was once another fashionable comparator.
The only other country to get similar treatment is Mexico.A more flattering comparator is South Korea which, like Poland, has let its currency slide, while shunning the deficit-swelling policies of Britain and America.
Use a "comparator", no matter how dubious; one index of slavery, short of numbers for Ireland and Iceland, uses British figures for both (aren't all island nations alike?).
In particular, the attitudes of boys to girls and girls to their own bodies: Page 3 supplies invidious comparators and narrow, retrograde stereotypes.The paper itself seems to understand that tits are not for kids, and drops them in its family-friendly weekend editions.
And there are the transits through UB, a veritable Bangkok of the steppes at least if your comparators are Kabul and Mogadishu.
The trouble with this method is that history is not quite as cyclical as it implies; and the current situation is too unusual for it to work.The Tories have two favourite comparators for their bid for power.
Patient ratings from the NHS Choices website were compared to data on clinical measures from Dr Foster, NHS Comparators the Health Protection Agency.
