| Main Entry: | policy |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | procedure, tactics |
Synonyms: |
action, administration, approach, arrangement, behavior, channels, code, course, custom, design, guideline, line, management, method, order, organization, plan, polity, practice, program, protocol, red tape, rule, scheme, stratagem, strategy, tenet, the book, the numbers, theory |
| Main Entry: | administration |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | management of an organization or effort |
Synonyms: |
administering, agency, application, authority, charge, command, conduct, conducting, control, directing, direction, dispensation, disposition, distribution, enforcement, execution, governing, government, guidance, handling, jurisdiction, legislation, order, organization, overseeing, oversight, performance, policy, power, provision, regulation, rule, running, strategy, superintendence, supervision, surveillance |
| Main Entry: | conduct |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | administration |
Synonyms: |
care, carrying on, channels, charge, control, direction, execution, guidance, handling, intendance, leadership, management, manipulation, organization, oversight, plan, policy, posture, red tape, regimen, regulation, rule, running, strategy, superintendence, supervision, tactics, transaction, treatment, wielding |
| Main Entry: | course |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | progress, advance |
Synonyms: |
advancement, chain, channels, consecution, continuity, development, flow, furtherance, line, manner, march, movement, order, plan, policy, polity, procedure, program, progression, red tape, row, scheme, sequel, sequence, series, string, succession, system, unfolding, way |
| Main Entry: | custom |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | ritual, traditional action |
Synonyms: |
attitude, canon, ceremony, character, convention, conventionalism, customariness, design, dictates, established way, etiquette, fashion, folkways, form, formality, inheritence, manner, matter of course, method, mode, mold, mores, observance, observation, pattern, performance, policy, practice, praxis, precedent, precept, rite, routine, rule, second nature, style, system, taste, type, unwritten law, unwritten rule, usage, use, vogue, way |
| Notes: | costume and custom were actually two forms of the same Latin root consuetudinem 'habit, custom,' with costume first meaning 'manners and customs belonging to a particular time and place' |
Antonyms: |
departure, deviation |
| Main Entry: | expediency/expedience |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | appropriateness; worth |
Synonyms: |
advantage, advantageousness, advisability, appositeness, aptness, benefit, convenience, desirability, effectiveness, efficiency, fitness, helpfulness, judiciousness, meetness, opportunism, opportunity, order, policy, practicality, pragmatism, profitability, profitableness, properness, propitiousness, propriety, prudence, rightness, suitability, usefulness, utilitarianism, utility |
Antonyms: |
disadvantage, inappropriateness |
| Main Entry: | manifesto |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | public declaration |
Synonyms: |
announcement, notice, platform, policy, proclamation, promulgation, public notice, statement of belief |
| Main Entry: | morals |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | personal principles, standards |
Synonyms: |
behavior, beliefs, conduct, customs, dogmas, ethic, ethics, habits, ideals, integrity, manners, morality, mores, policies, scruples |
Antonyms: |
amorality, disrespectability, immorality, indecency, unethicalness |
| Main Entry: | mores |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | traditional customs |
Synonyms: |
attitude, codes, established ways, etiquette, formalities, manners, morals, policies, practices, principles, protocol, rites, rituals, routines, rules, social conduct, standards, way of life |
| Main Entry: | plan |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | scheme, design, way of doing things |
Synonyms: |
aim, angle, animus, arrangement, big picture, contrivance, course of action, deal, device, disposition, expedient, game plan, gimmick, ground plan, idea, intent, intention, layout, machination, meaning, means, method, orderliness, outline, pattern, picture, platform, plot, policy, procedure, program, project, projection, proposal, proposition, purpose, scenario, stratagem, strategy, suggestion, system, tactics, treatment, trick, undertaking |