1. plural of benchmarking; the process of comparing a company's or product's performance against industry standards or competitors
Usage: business/management context; typically used in plural form or as a mass noun
2. plural of benchmarking; instances or activities of establishing a reference point or standard for measurement
Usage: technical/quality assurance context

Examples

• The company conducted several benchmarkings to measure its efficiency against competitors.
• Regular benchmarkings help organizations identify areas for improvement.
• Our benchmarkings showed that we were lagging behind industry standards in customer service.
• The team used benchmarkings to set realistic performance targets for the next quarter.
• Multiple benchmarkings across different departments revealed inconsistencies in quality control.
• Industry benchmarkings indicated that our production costs were higher than average.