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best practices

best practices is the plural of best practice.

Meaning of best practice

Noun

best practice (plural best practices)

  1. A well-defined procedure that is known to produce near-optimum results.
    • For the record: A best practice for account names is to use the organization's full name in the account name field—such as, Department of Usually Micro Managed Important Executive Secretaries.2008, Joel Scott, David Lee, Scott Weiss, Microsoft Dynamics CRM 4 For Dummies, John Wiley, →ISBN, page 374

Questions about best practices

What is best practices the plural of?
Best practices is the plural of best practice.

Words near best practices in the dictionary

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  10. best thing since sliced bread
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