Noun
The arrangement of, or mode of expressing, the terms of a contract or conveyance.
A qualification involving the idea of variation or departure from some general rule or form, in the way of either restriction or enlargement, according to the circumstances of the case, as in the will of a donor, an agreement between parties, and the like.
A fixed compensation or equivalent given instead of payment of tithes in kind, expressed in full by the phrase modus decimandi.
Source: Webster's dictionaryPassivity can be a provoking modus operandi; Consider the Empire and Gandhi. Ogden Nash
By what modus operandi does credit restriction attain this result? In no other way than by the deliberate intensification of unemployment. John Maynard Keynes
Ask yourself: Have you been kind today? Make kindness your daily modus operandi and change your world. Annie Lennox
Now, when I started my theater, the modus operandi was having the actors stare right into the audience. Richard Foreman
Modus in rebus-there must be an end of things. Lloyd Kenyon, 1st Baron Kenyon
Dinosaurs, Neanderthals, and Denisovans did not evolve and adapt fast enough, and therefore they became extinct. Modus operandi or business as usual will doom the human race to mass extinction. Newton Lee