modus operandi

Noun

Meaning

an unvarying or habitual method or procedure

Source: WordNet

Synonyms

routine mo patten sop praxis line way process system form program method practice rule style
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Antonyms

difference reality violence disorder confusion mistake
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Hypernyms

process procedure

Hyponyms

groove rut rat race

Examples

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

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

Might we not lose more judges who find the CJ's modus operandi unacceptable, as shown up in Judge Anthony Gates's ruling last week in a matter when Sir Timoci tried to have a case in which he is a defendant assigned to a judge of his selection? Vijay R. Singh

Hacking into a victim of crime's phone is a sort of poetically elegant manifestation of a modus operandi the tabloids have. Steve Coogan

Close letter words and terms

modulus of smoothness modus modus morons modus operandum modus operandus modus ponendo ponens