The meaning of Custom

noun

A person's regular occupation, profession, or trade.

Usage examples:

Experts who typically conduct their business over the internet

noun

The activity of buying and selling goods and services, or a particular company that does this, or work in general rather than pleasure

Usage examples:

[ c ] he runs a dry cleaning business., [ u ] i’m in baltimore on business., [ u ] our firm does a …

noun

The activity of buying and selling goods and services

Usage examples:

In business she is an academic, but all her brothers work in business., be in business currently, f…

noun

A formal religious or public occasion, especially one celebrating a particular event, achievement, or anniversary.

Usage examples:

The winners were presented with their prizes at a special ceremony

noun

A way in which something is usually done.

Usage examples:

To attract the best patrons the movie houses had to ape the conventions and the standards of theatres

noun

A way of doing something or appearing that is considered usual and correct

Usage examples:

[ c ] literary conventions, [ u ] he flouted convention by wearing sneakers with his tuxedo., the d…

noun

A large, formal meeting of people who work in the same industry or belong to the same organization or profession

Usage examples:

A convention of shopping center developers, hold/host a convention madrid will host next year's con…

noun

A popular or the latest style of clothing, hair, decoration, or behaviour.

Usage examples:

The latest parisian fashions

verb

Make into a particular form.

Usage examples:

The bottles were fashioned from green glass

combining form

In the manner of something specified.

Usage examples:

The masts extend concertina-fashion

noun

The visible shape or configuration of something.

Usage examples:

The form, colour, and texture of the tree

verb

Variant spelling of forme.

combining form

Having the form of.

Usage examples:

Cruciform

noun

The rigid observance of convention or etiquette.

Usage examples:

The formality of life in an english public school

noun

Something done because it follows the usual or accepted way of doing things, although it may not be important

Usage examples:

[ c ] there were only a few legal formalities to be finished, and he would be free to leave the cou…

noun

Something official that must be done before something else can happen or be done

Usage examples:

It is essential to observe all the formalities when setting up a business., complete/go through the…

noun

A way in which a thing is done or happens.

Usage examples:

Taking notes in an unobtrusive manner

noun

The way in which something is done

Usage examples:

Please exit the building in an orderly manner., his manner was formal, though friendly., she had a …

noun

A way or manner in which something occurs or is experienced, expressed, or done.

Usage examples:

His preferred mode of travel was a kayak

noun

A way of operating, living, or behaving

Usage examples:

Good teachers get their students into a learning mode., each department has its own mode of operati…

noun

A way of doing something

Usage examples:

Mode of transportation/locomotion/production the bicycle is still a crucial mode of transportation …

plural noun

The essential or characteristic customs and conventions of a society or community.

Usage examples:

An offence against social mores

plural noun

The traditional customs and ways of behaving that are typical of a particular society

Usage examples:

The novel examines the mores of nineteenth-century boston society.

noun

The practice of observing the requirements of law, morality, or ritual.

Usage examples:

Strict observance of the rules

noun

A ceremony or action to celebrate a holiday or a religious or other important event

Usage examples:

[ c ] memorial day observances, [ u ] financial markets will be closed monday in observance of labo…

noun

The act of obeying a law or following a religious custom

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Religious observances such as fasting

noun

An authoritative order.

Usage examples:

The details regarding the narrow limits that exist on the right to use these rooms and tight contro…

noun

A law or rule made by a government or authority

Usage examples:

A city ordinance forbids the parking of cars in this area.

noun

A law, usually one made by a city or regional government

Usage examples:

The ordinance would require apartment managers to verify that renters are us citizens., under the o…

noun

The support given by a patron.

Usage examples:

The arts could no longer depend on private patronage

noun

The power to give someone an important job or advantages in exchange for help or support

Usage examples:

New rules would minimize the effects of political patronage.

noun

The business given to a shop, restaurant, hotel, etc. by its customers

Usage examples:

Many wealthy japanese have shifted their patronage to the new western luxury hotels., the company i…

noun

The actual application or use of an idea, belief, or method, as opposed to theories relating to it.

Usage examples:

The principles and practice of teaching

verb

Us spelling of practise.

verb

Perform (an activity) or exercise (a skill) repeatedly or regularly in order to acquire, improve or maintain proficiency in it.

Usage examples:

I need to practise my french

noun

An established or official way of doing something.

Usage examples:

The police are now reviewing procedures

noun

An order or method of doing something

Usage examples:

[ u ] it’s standard procedure for those at the top of the list to be called first., defense lawyers…

noun

A set of actions which is the usual or official way of doing something

Usage examples:

Procedure for sth the company has introduced new procedures for dealing with customer complaints., …

noun

A religious or solemn ceremony consisting of a series of actions performed according to a prescribed order.

Usage examples:

Ancient fertility rituals

adjective

Relating to or done as a religious or solemn rite.

Usage examples:

Ritual burial

noun

A set of actions or words performed in a regular way, often as part of a religious ceremony

Usage examples:

[ c ] my morning ritual includes reading the newspaper while i drink my coffee.

noun

A custom, principle, or belief distinguishing a particular class or group of people, especially a long-standing one regarded as outmoded or no longer important.

Usage examples:

The majority, under the influence of vague nineteenth-century shibboleths, understood him to be ass…

verb

Bear all or part of the weight of; hold up.

Usage examples:

The dome was supported by a hundred white columns

noun

A thing that bears the weight of something or keeps it upright.

Usage examples:

The best support for a camera is a tripod

verb

The act of bearing the weight of or strengthening

noun

The action of buying and selling goods and services.

Usage examples:

A move to ban all trade in ivory

verb

Buy and sell goods and services.

Usage examples:

Middlemen trading in luxury goods

noun

The activity of buying and selling goods and services esp. between countries

Usage examples:

[ u ] foreign trade, [ u ] a trade agreement, [ c ] the building trades, [ u ] he’s an auto mechani…

noun

The transmission of customs or beliefs from generation to generation, or the fact of being passed on in this way.

Usage examples:

Members of different castes have by tradition been associated with specific occupations

noun

A way of behaving or a belief that has been established for a long time, or the practice of following behavior and beliefs that have been so established

Usage examples:

[ c ] it is a western tradition for brides to wear white., [ u ] the dinka people are cattle-farmer…

noun

The action of using something or the fact of being used.

Usage examples:

A survey of water usage

noun

The way in which words are used by the people who speak and write a particular language, or an example of such use

Usage examples:

[ c ] we use african-american, which is the current preferred usage., the study tracks credit card …

noun

The process of using something

Usage examples:

The software allows marketers to track the usage patterns of each customer., the plan offers unlimi…

noun

A method, style, or manner of doing something; an optional or alternative form of action.

Usage examples:

I hated their way of cooking potatoes

adverb

At or to a considerable distance or extent; far (used before an adverb or preposition for emphasis).

Usage examples:

His understanding of what constitutes good writing is way off target

suffix

Equivalent to -ways.