English > practice: 10 senses > noun 1, act| Meaning | A customary way / way of operation or behavior. |
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| Example | "it is their practice to give annual raises" |
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| Synonym | pattern |
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| Narrower | biologism | Use of biological principles in explaining human especially social behavior |
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| calisthenics, callisthenics | The practice of calisthenic exercises |
| cannibalism | The practice of eating the flesh of your own kind |
| careerism | The practice of advancing your career at the expense of your personal integrity |
| cooperation | The practice of cooperating |
| custom, usage, usance | accepted or habitual practice |
| fashion | characteristic or habitual practice |
| featherbedding | The practice (usually by a labor union) of requiring an employer to hire more workers than are required |
| formalism | The practice of scrupulous adherence to prescribed or external forms |
| habitude | habitual mode of behavior |
| lobbyism | The practice of lobbying |
| lynch law | The practice of punishing people by hanging without due process of law |
| mistreatment | The practice of treating (someone or something) badly |
| modernism | practices typical of contemporary life or thought |
| nonconformism | The practice of nonconformity / nonconformity / nonconformity |
| nudism, naturism | Going without clothes as a social practice |
| occult, occult arts | Supernatural practices and techniques |
| one-upmanship | The practice of keeping one jump ahead of a friend or competitor |
| ornamentalism | The practice of ornamental display |
| peonage | The practice of making a debtor work for his creditor until the debt is discharged |
| pluralism | The practice of one person holding more than one benefice at a time / time |
| popery, papism | offensive terms for the practices and rituals of the Roman Catholic Church |
| quotation | The practice of quoting from books or plays etc. |
| ritual | The prescribed procedure for conducting religious ceremonies |
| ritualism | exaggerated emphasis on the importance of rites or ritualistic forms in worship |
| slavery, slaveholding | The practice of owning slaves |
| symbolism, symbolization, symbolisation | The practice of investing things with symbolic meaning / meaning |
| systematism | The habitual practice of systematization and classification |
| transvestism, transvestitism, cross dressing | The practice of adopting the clothes or the manner or the sexual role of the opposite sex |
| unwritten law | law based on customary behavior |
| Broader | activity | Any specific behavior |
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| Spanish | costumbre, hábito, práctica |
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| Catalan | costum, hàbit, pràctica |
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| Adjectives | practical | concerned with actual use or practice |
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| practical | guided by practical experience and observation rather than theory |
| Verbs | practice | avail oneself to |
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