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custom

Definition

  • noun: an action or way of behaving that is usual and traditional among the people in a particular group or place
  • noun: a usage or practice common to many or to a particular place or class or habitual with an individual
  • often used before another noun
  • synonyms: fashion, habit, practice

Examples

  • As new shops have opened people have been taking their 'custom' [='business'] elsewhere.

  • It is the 'custom' for the bride to wear a white dress on her wedding day.

  • We went through 'customs' at the airport without any difficulty.

Movie clips

Movie quotes

  • (..) You were born a week early, but there were no complications. It was a perfect delivery. Your father was sorry not to be there. But it wasn't the custom then for men to be in the room for deliveries... ...so I can't see how it would've been much different had he been there. And that's the real story (..)
    2003 Big Fish