CUSTOM
\kˈʌstəm], \kˈʌstəm], \k_ˈʌ_s_t_ə_m]\
Definitions of CUSTOM
- 2006 - WordNet 3.0
- 2011 - English Dictionary Database
- 2010 - New Age Dictionary Database
- 2010 - Medical Dictionary Database
- 1919 - The Winston Simplified Dictionary
- 1899 - The american dictionary of the english language.
- 1894 - The Clarendon dictionary
- 1914 - Nuttall's Standard dictionary of the English language
- 1919 - The Concise Standard Dictionary of the English Language
- 1874 - Etymological and pronouncing dictionary of the English language
- 1871 - The Cabinet Dictionary of the English Language
- 1790 - A Complete Dictionary of the English Language
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accepted or habitual practice
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a specific practice of long standing
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made according to the specifications of an individual
By Princeton University
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accepted or habitual practice
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a specific practice of long standing
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made according to the specifications of an individual
By DataStellar Co., Ltd
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Frequent repetition of the same act; way of acting common to many; ordinary manner; habitual practice; usage; method of doing or living.
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Habitual buying of goods; practice of frequenting, as a shop, manufactory, etc., for making purchases or giving orders; business support.
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Long-established practice, considered as unwritten law, and resting for authority on long consent; usage. See Usage, and Prescription.
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Familiar aquaintance; familiarity.
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To make familiar; to accustom.
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To supply with customers.
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The customary toll, tax, or tribute.
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Duties or tolls imposed by law on commodities, imported or exported.
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To pay the customs of.
By Oddity Software
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A collective expression for all behavior patterns acquired and socially transmitted through symbols. Culture includes customs, traditions, and language.
By DataStellar Co., Ltd
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A usual course of action; a frequent repetition of the same act; established or recognized usage; business support; unwritten law.
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Made to order; as, custom clothes; doing only work that is ordered; as, a custom tailor.
By William Dodge Lewis, Edgar Arthur Singer
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What one is wont to do: usage: frequent repetition of the same act: a frequenting of a shop to buy goods: regular trade or business: a tax on goods:-pl. duties imposed on imports and exports.
By Daniel Lyons
By William Hand Browne, Samuel Stehman Haldeman
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To accustom.
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Frequent repetition of the same act; habitual practice; established mode; usage; a buying of goods; a frequenting a shop to purchase; long-established practice, as constituting the unwritten law, long consent to which gives it authority; an annual sacrifice of human victims in Ashantee.
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To make familiar; to give custom to.
By Nuttall, P.Austin.
By James Champlin Fernald
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Frequent repetition of the same act; established manner; the practice of frequenting a shop for the purchase of goods; usage; toll or tax.
By Stormonth, James, Phelp, P. H.
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n. [French] Way of acting; habitual practice;—habitual buying of goods; business support; patronage;—long established practice or usage; toll, tax, or tribute;—pl. Duties imposed on commodities imported into or exported from the country.
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Habit, habitual practice; fashion, common way of acting; established manner; practice of buying of certain persons; application from buyers, as this trader has good custom; in law, a law, or right, not written, which, being established by long use, and the consent of our ancestors, has been, and is, daily practised; tribute, tax paid for goods imported or exported.
By Thomas Sheridan
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