usual practice

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meanings of usualand practice

These words are often used together. Click on the links below to explore the meanings.
usual
noun[ S ]
uk /ˈjuː.ʒu.əl/ us /ˈjuː.ʒu.əl/
Someone's usual is the drink, especially an alcoholic one, that they most often have, for example when in ...
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practice
noun
uk /ˈpræk.tɪs/ us /ˈpræk.tɪs/
action rather than thought ...
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Examples of usual practice

usual practice
In censuses and municipal lists, as much in 1825 as in 1900, it was the usualpractice to declare the occupation in which a person worked or had worked.
Despite the usualpractice of husband and wife attending gham-khadi together, in segregated spaces, individual women are understood as agents exercising control over these forms of behaviour.
Accordingly, the usualpractice (following the convention of behavior genetic analyses) of attributing the whole of gene - environment correlations to a genetic effect is seriously mistaken.
Parents used terms like 'it was more business-like', and 'it had urgency about it' to capture the fact that the practice was of a different motivation to usualpractice.
The question of why this departure from usualpractice was deemed necessary is addressed in the preface of this work.
This is an important issue because the costs and effectiveness/benefits of the intervention should be judged against usualpractice.
A randomized design was used, with active comparisons, and a protocol that deviated from usualpractice as little as possible (10).
Note that, contrary to usualpractice, we insist on variables being declared at most once in a pseudo-context.
For instance, in transcribing a body of taped data, the usualpractice is to listen for auditorily distinguishable categories, usually segments where phonology is concerned.
According to the usualpractice, lexemes are written in capital letters, but they are also italicized like word forms.
In this area, where ratooning is the usualpractice, red bollworm is a determining factor.
This option was to become the usualpractice from the seventeenth century on.
Adjusting for other risks for coronary heart disease is the usualpractice in this sort of analysis.
The window and the door were both bolted which was the usualpractice apparently to prevent burglary and 'the air was quite foul'.
Active movement-based music play, and the resulting sound, can be successfully accommodated out of doors, but this represents a departure from usualpractice for many early years practitioners.
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