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conduct

[kon-duhkt, kuhn-duhkt] / ˈkɒn dʌkt, kənˈdʌkt /




VERB
comport oneself
Synonyms
Antonyms
STRONG
WEAK


Usage

What are other ways to say conduct? To conduct is to precede or escort to a place, sometimes with a degree of ceremony: to conduct a guest to his room. Guide implies continuous presence or agency in showing or indicating a course: to guide a traveler. To direct is to give information for guidance, or instructions or orders for a course of procedure: to direct someone to the station. To lead is to bring onward in a course, guiding by contact or by going in advance; hence, figuratively, to influence or induce to some course of conduct: to lead a procession; to lead astray.

Example Sentences

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While the tariffs have hurt sales and demand for manufactured goods, companies have kept investing in new technologies that have the promise to reshape how they conduct business and even to remake the economy.

From MarketWatch

In a poll conducted this month by the New York Times and Siena University, 58% of respondents said they disapprove of the way the president is handling the economy.

From Los Angeles Times

And so policing conduct that they saw maybe 10 years ago, and would have found reprehensible then, could actually seem to be okay now with the bar so low.

From Salon

Entitled “Fed-President Pressure Index,” External link the study was conducted by Yosef Bonaparte, a finance professor at the University of Colorado at Denver’s Business School.

From Barron's

Stormont Communities Minister Gordon Lyons has said there is "no evidence to back up" the findings of a standards watchdog which found that he broke the ministerial code of conduct.

From BBC