1a customary way of operation or behavior
- it is their practice to give annual raises
- they changed their dietary pattern
Synonymspattern,
Hyponymsbiologism, calisthenics, cannibalism, careerism, cooperation, custom, fashion, featherbedding, formalism, habitude, lobbyism, lynch law, mistreatment, modernism, nonconformism, nudism, occult, one-upmanship, ornamentalism, peonage, pluralism, popery, quotation, ritual, ritualism, slavery, symbolism, systematism, transvestism, unwritten law,
Hypernymsactivity,
Type ofactivity,
Typesbiologism, cannibalism, careerism, cooperation, cross dressing, custom, fashion, featherbedding, formalism, habitude, lynch law, mistreatment, modernism, naturism, nudism, occult, occult arts, one-upmanship, peonage, popery, quotation, ritual, ritualism, slaveholding, slavery, symbolisation, symbolism, symbolization, systematism, transvestism, transvestitism, unwritten law, usage, usance,