business
[ C or U ]
a way of behaving or doing something which has existed for a long time and is considered as the usual way:
There is a custom that banks buy at the top of the market and sell at the bottom.
The solicitors suggested that the advice from the British Bankers' Association counted only as custom and practice and was not in fact law.
custom
adjective[ before noun ]
uk /ˈkʌstəm/us
PRODUCTION
specially designed for a particular person or purpose:
custom-designed/made/builtGetting parts for custom-built cars can take six months to a year.
The company was founded in 1921 as a builder of custom homes.
Banks and private companies pay for custom news feeds that serve their own needs.
The music industry is being turned upside down by our ability to go to a website and download MP3 music tracks or get custom CDs made.

Examples of custom

custom
Early training programs in cultural competence tended to rely on categorical constructs that lumped patients together by their "typical" cultural values, customs, and beliefs.
He had described at length how local government stimulated the right kinds of attitudes and customs for the preservation of an orderly liberty.
Standard components are preferred to custom-made ones as they are usually cheaper and readily available.
The differentiation between ' tradition' and ' custom' in our sense is indeed well illustrated here.
In practice, the ' sons of the customs ' would just as soon accept a personal offering (dash) in the coin of the realm.
Here he referred to customs that did not support his thesis.
To make such exchange possible, agents adopted the customs and practices of the outsiders they wanted to trade with to signal their credibility.
In the depressed demographic circumstances of the fifteenth century, custom may barely have existed.
Algerian producers were held strictly accountable to the customs union.
The older generation especially appeared to be caught between the traditional customs and the modernised socio-legal systems, which inevitably produced contradictory and unbalanced responses.
These included granting firms and investors full exemption for customs import duties on plant, machinery, equipment and accessories required for the enterprises.
Typically, though, forest management regulations are determined wholly by custom, though some villages also utilize formal laws.
In total, 78 per cent of villages regulate forests by custom and 22 per cent have no regulation at all.
The continued use of dependency ratios may be due to habit or custom.
A third source (after conventions and custom) is 'the general principles of law recognised by civilised nations'.
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Collocations withcustom

custom

These are words often used in combination with custom.

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ancient custom
It emerges from the impact of novel circumstances upon ancientcustom; it is transformed into a different group of usages by cultural change.
burial custom
Xinglongwa also featured an unusual burial custom, as some bodies were buried directly under the houses.
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