Meaning of standard practice | Babel Free

Definitions

The way an activity is typically done.

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Examples

“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 and Paul got amongst it as best we could.”

“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.”

“As can be deduced from the low number of proteomic applications in foodomics studies, it is expected that new innovations in proteomic technology will help proteomic profiling to also become a standard practice in foodomics.”

“And now she was pitching to him over dinner? ‘Is that standard practice?’ ‘Well, strictly speaking, no. But we’re all crazy busy and we gotta eat, right? This way, two birds, one stone.’”

“Normally, a seven-week continuing resolution would be standard practice for Congress, which excels at kicking the can down the road and often makes hard, longer-term decisions only when threatened with missing its vacation time – which is why it set the new pre-Thanksgiving deadline.”

“It is standard practice for search and rescue authorities to ask other vessels in the area to assist. Usually, this is done. The weather on the night of 31 December was too atrocious, and when at 11pm the Coast Guard asked the crabber Ruff & Reddy to head to the scene, its skipper refused, as a skipper has a right to do if he believes conditions to be too treacherous.”

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