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code of conduct

code of conduct noun: a set of rules dictating acceptable behavior and decisions in a specified environment.

Noun

code of conduct (plural codes of conduct)

  1. A set of rules dictating acceptable behavior and decisions in a specified environment.
    • What use have I ever had from this religion that has been dinned into me? It gave me false ideas of the world and nature which I have had to unlearn. It gave me an unworkable code of conduct which I never tried to follow, but I got into trouble for it.1901, Harold Fielding, The Hearts of Men
    • In spite of the maturity of his years and of the savage rigidity of the mould that had formed him, his nature was undergoing an expansion. There was a burgeoning within him of strange feelings and unwonted impulses. His old code of conduct was changing.1906 May–October, Jack London, chapter VI, in White Fang, New York, N.Y.: The Macmillan Company; London: Macmillan & Co., published October 1906, →OCLC, part 4 (The Superior Gods)

code of conduct meaning in Hindi, Tamil, Kannada and Tagalog

code of conduct in Hindi

set of rules dictating acceptable behaviour and decisions in a specified environment
आचार संहिता ācār sãhitā

code of conduct in Tamil

நன்னடத்தைக் கோட்பாடு, நடைமுறை விதித் தொகுப்பு, நடத்தை விதித் தொகுப்பு, தொகுதி

code of conduct in Kannada

ಸದಾಚಾರ ಸಂಹಿತೆ

code of conduct in Tagalog

set of rules dictating acceptable behaviour and decisions in a specified environment
talagawian
More languagesFewer languages
code of conduct in Vietnamese
bộ quy tắc ứng xử

Examples of code of conduct in a sentence

  • Mr Blunkett quit after breaking the ministerial code of conduct over paid work he took while out of the Cabinet.2005 November 2, “Blunkett quits after ‘mistakes’”, in BBC News:
  • Now, a few prominent figures in high technology are proposing a blogger code of conduct to clean up the quality of online discourse.2007 April 9, Brad Stone, “Bloggers debate need for code of conduct”, in The International Herald Tribune:

Forms of code of conduct

pluralcodes of conduct

Questions about code of conduct

What does code of conduct mean?
Code of conduct means a set of rules dictating acceptable behavior and decisions in a specified environment.
What is code of conduct in Hindi?
Code of conduct in Hindi is आचार संहिता (ācār sãhitā). See Code of conduct meaning in Hindi.
How do you use code of conduct in a sentence?
Mr Blunkett quit after breaking the ministerial code of conduct over paid work he took while out of the Cabinet.
What part of speech is code of conduct?
Code of conduct is a noun.
What is the plural of code of conduct?
The plural of code of conduct is codes of conduct.

Words near code of conduct in the dictionary

  1. code monkey
  2. code monkeys
  3. code morphing
  4. code name
  5. code names
  6. code of conduct
  7. code of ethics
  8. code of honor
  9. code of honour
  10. Code of Military Justice
  11. code of practice

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Adapted from Wiktionary: code of conduct (page history and authors); code of conduct (Tamil Wiktionary) (page history and authors); code of conduct (Kannada Wiktionary) (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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