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conduct

[kon-duhkt, kuhn-duhkt] / ˈkɒn dʌkt, kənˈdʌkt /




VERB
comport oneself
Synonyms
Antonyms
STRONG
WEAK


Usage

What are other ways to say conduct? To conduct is to precede or escort to a place, sometimes with a degree of ceremony: to conduct a guest to his room. Guide implies continuous presence or agency in showing or indicating a course: to guide a traveler. To direct is to give information for guidance, or instructions or orders for a course of procedure: to direct someone to the station. To lead is to bring onward in a course, guiding by contact or by going in advance; hence, figuratively, to influence or induce to some course of conduct: to lead a procession; to lead astray.

Example Sentences

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If he included Puech’s shares among those sold to the company without its knowledge, the filing says, such conduct “would have represented a breach of loyalty not only toward Puech but also toward LVMH.”

From The Wall Street Journal • Jun. 25, 2026

Both players have been recalled to the XI for the third Test, which starts on Thursday, after being found blameless of "violent conduct" by the Cricket Regulator.

From BBC • Jun. 24, 2026

The company said in a regulatory filing that it had "decided to conduct a public offering of American Depositary Receipts through the issuance of new shares and list them on Nasdaq" on July 10.

From Barron's • Jun. 24, 2026

The petition alleged that White was “guilty of inappropriate marital conduct, which makes further cohabitation unsafe and improper.”

From Los Angeles Times • Jun. 24, 2026

She made no ineffectual efforts to conduct her household en bonne ménagère, going and coming as it suited her fancy, and, so far as she was able, lending herself to any passing caprice.

From "The Awakening" by Kate Chopin




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