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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

Beijing said it needed to conduct the operation because of negotiations between Japan and the Philippines over their overlapping exclusive economic zones, which also include waters claimed by Taiwan—and by China as well.

From The Wall Street Journal • Jun. 24, 2026

At a few locations, French border police conduct passport checks before people leave the UK.

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

In other people’s presence I was, as formerly, deferential and quiet; any other line of conduct being uncalled for: it was only in the evening conferences I thus thwarted and afflicted him.

From "Jane Eyre" by Charlotte Brontë




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