standpoint

[ stand-point ]

/ ˈstændˌpɔɪnt /

the point or place at which a person stands to view something.

the mental position, attitude, etc., from which a person views and judges things: From the lawyer's standpoint, her client is right.

Origin of standpoint

1820–30; stand + point, modeled on German Standpunkt

A lot of people that I supported throughout the years from an IT standpoint said “Yeah Tonie, we already knew!”

How A Company’s Support of Gay Employees Helped One of Them To Come Out | |December 24, 2014 |DAILY BEAST
But it was not until Y Tu Mamá También that I started doing them systematically from the standpoint of language.

Alfonso Cuarón On ‘Gravity,’ Creationists, and Bonding with Sandra Bullock Over Divorce |Marlow Stern |February 19, 2014 |DAILY BEAST
From the standpoint of today, however, it was dominated by Obamacare.

How to Fight for Freedom in 2014 |James Poulos |December 29, 2013 |DAILY BEAST
He was a man of his times and felt all parts of his presentation were important so it bothered me from that standpoint.

Martin Luther King’s Dream Still Lives |Allison Samuels |August 25, 2013 |DAILY BEAST

If you are talking about damage from a standpoint of what he released—embarrassment.

Bradley Manning: ‘I Will Recover From This ... This Is Just a Stage in My Life’ |Alexa O'Brien |August 21, 2013 |DAILY BEAST
All the medieval enthusiasms are reviewed and criticised from the standpoint of the Florentine bottega and piazza.

Renaissance in Italy: Italian Literature |John Addington Symonds
Really from his own standpoint there was nothing very outrageous in what he was doing.

The Way of All Flesh |Samuel Butler
Viewed from this standpoint the Uitlander grievances were an inexhaustibly rich and payable mine.

A Century of Wrong |F. W. Reitz
They have judged the trend of events and the probable results that are to follow, from the standpoint of the competitive system.

Solaris Farm |Milan C. Edson
I made it up on the spur of the moment, and from that standpoint it's rather clever.

Mollie and the Unwiseman |John Kendrick Bangs

standpoint

/ (ˈstændˌpɔɪnt) /

a physical or mental position from which things are viewed