conduct
IPA: kʌndˈʌkt
noun
- The act or method of controlling or directing.
- Skillful guidance or management.
- Behaviour; the manner of behaving.
- (of a literary work) Plot.
- (obsolete) Convoy; escort; person who accompanies another.
- (archaic) Something which carries or conveys anything; a channel; an instrument; a conduit.
- (Anglicanism, obsolete outside fixed titles) A priest hired to hold services without secure title; now a chaplain.
verb
- (archaic, transitive) To lead, or guide; to escort.
- (transitive) To lead; to direct; to be in charge of (people or tasks)
- (transitive, reflexive) To behave.
- (transitive) To serve as a medium for conveying; to transmit (heat, light, electricity, etc.)
- (transitive, music) To direct, as the leader in the performance of a musical composition.
- (intransitive) To act as a conductor (as of heat, electricity, etc.); to carry.
- (transitive) To carry out (something organized)
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Examples of "conduct" in Sentences
- As for the contention that this conduct is already illegal, good luck prosecuting it.
- The notion that a law prohibiting certain conduct violates the equal protection rights of the class that wishes to engage in that conduct is ridiculous.
- Let me repeat what I have just said: The MCA continues to recognize that certain conduct is illegal, but attempts to eliminate all judicial remedies for such violations.
- "We should expand military dialogue and exchanges, conduct and institutionalize cooperation\'\ 'and pursue a" code of conduct\'\ 'regarding territorial disputes in the South China Sea.
- That defense bars conviction “when, acting with actual or apparent authority, a government official affirmatively assures the defendant that certain conduct is legal and the defendant reasonably believes that official.”
- And if the evidence for charges relating to his hostile acts indicates that he was acting in self-defense, then his conduct is as justifiable as would be an assault on a police officer who commits an unprovoked attack on a person.
- In this letter the Baron stated _fairly and moderately but without palliation_ in what light M. Bresson's conduct must necessarily appear _in London_, and what very naturally and most probably _must be the political consequences of such conduct_.
- East, -- that truly noble, liberal, and charitable principle, "Do as you would be done by," influences the conduct of the better educated muselmen who have had long intercourse and negociations with Christians; and they do not fail to retort it upon us, whenever _our conduct_ deviates from it.
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