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conduct

noun as in behavior

verb as in comport oneself

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verb as in transport

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Example Sentences

My administration will continue to insist upon professional conduct from all our employees, regardless of their position in state government.

Kondrat said Glossier’s decision to create a code of conduct for customers is also a move that other retail startups should consider emulating.

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Irrational aspects of human behavior—chauvinistic nationalism and racial intolerance—keep us locked in patterns of conduct highly dangerous in the nuclear age, and dangerous in relation to other changes brought about by science.

To many untrained observers there clearly seemed to be wrongful conduct on the part one or both of the companies.

In 2018, an appellate court concluded that the city attorney’s office had broken the State Bar’s rules of professional conduct by breaching a suspect’s right to attorney-client privilege.

There is, however, a separate wing of AQAP designed to inspire their followers to conduct attacks against the West.

Together, they crossed over the International Bridges on foot into Juarez to conduct some business.

Before his writing days, London used the Oakland establishment to conduct his studies.

By drawing boundaries against wrongful conduct, law provides a protective zone of freedom within those boundaries.

Were they innocent victims or did they conduct themselves in a manner that would naturally lead to their demise?

The watchword of conduct that will clear up all our difficulties is, the plain truth.

Here was a return for his frankness—his straightforward conduct—his unequalled liberality.

And there is much in the common experience of life and the common conduct of business that seems to support this view.

As against the pain she inflicted, he had been generous, long-suffering— therefore his conduct was 'beautiful and precious.'

Be this as it may, his conduct during the campaign justified the suspicion with which he was regarded by friend and foe.

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When To Use

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.

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On this page you'll find 281 synonyms, antonyms, and words related to conduct, such as: charge, handling, management, manipulation, oversight, and plan.

From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.

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