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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

  • (..) It's pronounced Metro City! Oh, potato, tomato, potato, tomato. We all know how this ends. With you behind bars. Oh, I'm shaking in my custom baby seal-leather boots. You will leave, Montrosity. Or this will be the last you ever hear of, Roxanne Ritchi! (..)
    2010 Megamind