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Code of conduct

noun

A set of conventional principles and expectations that are considered binding on any person who is a member of a particular group. Synonym: code of behavior.

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"Code of conduct" Quotes from Famous Books

... nineteenth century the Southwest meant Tennessee, Georgia, and other frontier territory now regarded as strictly South. The men and women who "redeemed Texas from the wilderness" came principally from that region. The code of conduct they gave Texas was largely the code of the booming West. Considering the character of the Anglo-American people who took over the Southwest, the region is closer to Missouri than to Kansas, which is not Southwest ...

— Guide to Life and Literature of the Southwest • J. Frank Dobie

... That iron-bound code of conduct which rules the Anglo-Indian, in the first days of the voyage had threatened to ostracize Karamaneh and Aziz, by reason of the Eastern blood to which their brilliant but peculiar type of beauty bore witness. Smith's attitude, however—and, ...

— The Return of Dr. Fu-Manchu • Sax Rohmer

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