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standard practice

standard practice noun: the way an activity is typically done.

Noun

standard practice (uncountable)

  1. The way an activity is typically done.
    • Sure enough the Scots and the gypsies had introduced each other and it looked like me and Paul had a riot on our hands. Johnny, the other lad, had to stay on the door, as is standard practice. There was a ruck of about twenty blokes punching and kicking seven bags of shit out of each other, so me...2003, Julian Davies, Terry Currie, quoting Steve Wraith, Bouncers: Their Lives in Their Own Words, Milo Books, →ISBN
    • Whether coincidence or not, this overlap was widely noted, and it is now standard practice for baseball teams to hire a flock of statheads and use their analyses to help make decisions on and off the field.2008 May 4, Stephen J. Dubner, Steven D. Levitt, “Hoop Data Dreams”, in New York Times

standard practice meaning in Tamil

standard practice in Tamil

செந்தகைமைப் பயிற்சி

Examples of standard practice in a sentence

  • Johnny, the other lad, had to stay on the door, as is standard practice.2003, Julian Davies, Terry Currie, quoting Steve Wraith, Bouncers: Their Lives in Their Own Words, Milo Books, →ISBN:
  • And now she was pitching to him over dinner? ‘Is that standard practice?’ ‘Well, strictly speaking, no.2014, Karen Swan, chapter 21, in The Summer Without You, London: Macmillan, →ISBN, page 327:
  • It is standard practice for search and rescue authorities to ask other vessels in the area to assist.2025 October 21, Rose George, “‘I knew in my head we were dying’: the last voyage of the Scandies Rose”, in The Guardian:

Questions about standard practice

What does standard practice mean?
Standard practice means the way an activity is typically done.
What is standard practice in Tamil?
Standard practice in Tamil is செந்தகைமைப் பயிற்சி. See Standard practice meaning in Tamil.
How do you use standard practice in a sentence?
Johnny, the other lad, had to stay on the door, as is standard practice.
What part of speech is standard practice?
Standard practice is a noun.

Words near standard practice in the dictionary

  1. standard operating procedures
  2. standard poodle
  3. standard poodles
  4. standard port
  5. standard ports
  6. standard practice
  7. standard rose
  8. standard roses
  9. standard ruler
  10. standard rulers
  11. Standard Schnauzer

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Adapted from Wiktionary: standard practice (page history and authors); standard practice (Tamil 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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