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Modus operandi   /mˈoʊdəs ˌɑpərˈændi/   Listen
Modus operandi

noun
1.
An unvarying or habitual method or procedure.  Synonym: routine.






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"Modus operandi" Quotes from Famous Books



... necessary, to expand its recruitment, training, and operations. The Intelligence Community will continue its comprehensive effort to acquire new reporting sources, then use those sources to penetrate designated terrorist organizations to provide information on leadership, plans, intentions, modus operandi, finances, communications, and recruitment. The law enforcement community, using the leverage provided by our criminal justice system, will continue its efforts to identify and locate terrorist organizations ...
— National Strategy for Combating Terrorism - February 2003 • United States

... This modus operandi was first proposed as a theory by Bunsen in 1846, and later was demonstrated by the artificial geyser of Professor J. H. ...
— Among the Forces • Henry White Warren

... publication, the Canadian publisher will rarely issue a book on his own responsibility. He sends the book to New York or to London, and from New York or London buys plates or sheets. This compels the Canadian book to have an Imperial or an American appeal. In literature, the modus operandi works; for the appeal is universal; but one might conceive of conditions demanding a purely national Canadian treatment, which New York or London publishers would not issue, when Canada would literally be damming the springs ...
— The Canadian Commonwealth • Agnes C. Laut



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